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The first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species

What blinking bugs reveal about synchrony in the universe

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas

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

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

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

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

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

The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts

Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

Intimations of mortality are not ours alone

At most, its oceans may contain biomass equivalent to a small dog