Flowers are so present in our lives that we almost do not see them: sheathed in paper in every market, plunked in a vase on a table in any cafe.…
Scholars have sought to capture the elusive essence of the aha! moment for more than a century, and it is finally within our grasp. We now know where it happens…
The moon may have melted 4.35 billion years ago—explaining a lunar age mystery
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There are fewer than 500 Ethiopian wolves, and they may be the first large carnivore known to act as a pollinator
The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace…
Most corals can’t relocate, but they’re finding ways to beat the heat
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Half a century after its discovery, this iconic fossil remains central to our understanding of human origins
The resulting family tree recalibration allowed the researchers to calculate when the two tardigrade lines that perform cryptobiosis could have diverged—putting a latest date on the likely acquisition of that…