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Can Plants Count?

It seems as though they can at least track the number of events in their environment

April 1, 2026

Making AI More Human

An interview with Berkeley researcher and author Nina Begus about her new book and proposal to fuse science and the humanities

April 1, 2026

Why Seals Twitch Their Whiskers

And the trade-offs inherent to every twitch

April 1, 2026

The Big-Game Elephants Neanderthals Hunted for Food

A prehistoric butcher bonanza uncovered on an ancient German lakeshore

March 31, 2026

A Very Unscientific History of Scientific Hoaxes

The past, present, and future of academic deception

March 31, 2026

Who Gets to Do Science?

An interview with a neuroscientist who spent the last decade tearing down the class, race, and language barriers that keep people like him out of research

March 31, 2026

What Sharks Attacked 5 Million Years Ago

It wasn’t a great time to be a beluga-like whale

March 31, 2026

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

March 30, 2026

How Did Evolution Come Up With So Many Squids?

It was a slow burn followed by a big bang

March 30, 2026

Why You Should Root for the Apex Predator

They’re indispensable ecosystem engineers

March 30, 2026

These Seals Brave Polar Bear Country to Access an Ocean Buffet

Conservation plans for climate change must consider both fear and food

March 30, 2026