Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...
What happens when you take one of the world’s most famous burgers and make it completely clear? This ambitious kitchen ...
Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social ...
Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...
A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...
It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...
Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...
Commentary: From Milgram’s obedience study to vision-flipping goggles, experiments reveal how authority twists truth and why we must guard our souls.
In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ...
In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.
Achieving a winter survival state requires lowering the internal body temperature to exactly 37°F. On the morning of February 2nd, a familiar scene took place. It featured a group of men in top hats ...