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The Paradox of the Elephant Brain
With three times as many neurons, why doesn’t the elephant brain outperform ours?
The Other Crisis on the Mexican Border
Animals are struggling to cope with the US-Mexico border wall.
Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?
The open nature of the science of classification virtually guarantees fights.
Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?
The open nature of the science of classification virtually guarantees fights.
How to Avoid Empathy Burnout
Caregivers can benefit by understanding a patient’s pain without feeling it themselves.
Why Nature Prefers Hexagons
The geometric rules behind fly eyes, honeycombs, and soap bubbles.
Does Stress Speed Up Evolution?
Getting control of the molecular mechanisms that drive rapid mutations.
Spark of Science: Sean B. Carroll
One biologist’s love for science got kickstarted by snakes.
Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?
Why life is constrained to be about the sizes we see on Earth.
Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too
How a steady diet of fertilizers has turned crops into couch potatoes.
The Classic Metal Behind the Origins of Life
A collection of metal atoms called the “metallome” helped drive evolution.
Sex Is a Coping Mechanism
Did sexual reproduction evolve to keep up with mitochondrial mutation?
