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Why Cooperation Falls Apart Over Time

It’s a question of motivation

April 27, 2026

What Happens When Giants Disappear from Ecosystems?

Big animals leave big holes in the food web

April 27, 2026

The Science of Spooky Sounds

A conversation with a “pseudoscience” researcher about how infrasound could be linked to ghosts

April 27, 2026

Why Volcanoes Sometimes Shoot Out Lightning

Tiny grains produce big charges

April 24, 2026

These Bees Change Color with the Weather

But the biological significance of their shifts is a mystery

April 24, 2026

When “Extinct” Volcanoes Reawaken

They’re filled with a lot more fury than their millennia-long slumber would suggest

April 24, 2026

What Mummies Read Before a Long Nap

Archaeologists have recovered a scrap of the Iliad in the belly of an interred Egyptian

April 24, 2026

The Problem with Psychedelic Research

A conversation with a psychedelics researcher about a fundamental flaw in how we test these mind-bending drugs

April 24, 2026

Could Neanderthals Speak Like Us?

They had the right genes for it

April 23, 2026

(Almost) A Eulogy for Voyager

The robotic space probe is 15 billion miles away and is nearing the end of its life in the distant cosmos

April 23, 2026