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In his debut book, the evolutionary biologist decodes the most exciting turning points in the effort to map what links all ...

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The Mad 802 Arts Collective has created a sci-fi exhibit of video projection, installation and drawing that addresses the ...

John D. Ratcliff was one of the most prolific magazine writers in the United States throughout the twentieth-century. He contributed more than 200 articles just to Reader’s Digest. Of those, his ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

The influential computer scientist Mark Weiser once wrote that “a good tool is an invisible tool. By invisible, I mean that the tool does not intrude on ...

When a rocket launches, the forces are intense enough to strain metal and push the human body to its limits. Yet Bacillus ...

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does your brain recognize when it’s time to take a breath, when your blood ...