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How Female Bonobos Rule

Gangs give them strength and higher status in conflicts with males

May 2, 2025

All Birds Roost in a Single Tree

The first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species

May 2, 2025

The Mathematical Mysteries of Fireflies

What blinking bugs reveal about synchrony in the universe

May 2, 2025

This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies

A rare tribe lacks music for dancing or soothing their young ones

May 1, 2025

The Creativity Hack No One Told You About

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas

May 1, 2025

Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness

The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

April 30, 2025

Reclaiming Samples of Ourselves

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg explores the ethics of human specimen collections in Is a Biobank a Home?

April 30, 2025

A New Story for Malta

Evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on the island could reshape our understanding of human settlement in the Mediterranean

April 30, 2025

Manta Rays at Play

Underwater, the mantas circled Evie, ready for a game. A work of fiction.

April 30, 2025

Asking Trees to Solve a Roman Conspiracy

Tree-ring records suggest that drought played a role in Roman Britain’s decline

April 29, 2025

A Map for Vanishing Animals

The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts