Animals
Bees ‘Buzz’ in More Ways Than You Might Think
A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.
Stories by Shayla Love
Ecology
In This Ancient Garden, Plants Can Cure or Kill You
Apothecaries founded this famous garden—one of the most ancient botanical gardens in Europe—to teach their students which plants poison and which plants cure.
Psychology
Do We Actually ‘Hear’ Silence?
An experiment tests whether our ears hear silent intervals in the same way they hear music or noise
Animals
Why Primates (Including Humans) Love to Spin Ourselves around until We All Fall Down
The menagerie that twirls and twirls includes gorillas, bonobos and, yes, us humans
Psychology
Love and the Brain: Do Partnerships Really Make Us Happy? Here’s What the Science Says
How romance affects our well-being is a lot more complicated than “they lived happily ever after.”
Animals
Love and the Brain: The Animal Matchmaker and the Panda Romeo and Juliet
In fair zoo-ona, a pair of star-cross’d pandas take their life. And we learn about whether or not animals can fall in love.
Psychology
Love and the Brain: How Attached Are We to Attachment Styles?
Are you “anxious,” “avoidant” or “disorganized?” So-called attachment styles have taken the Internet by storm. But it turns out there’s a lot more to unpack than people think. ...
Psychology
Love and the Brain, Part 1: The 36 Questions, Revisited
Host Shayla Love dives into the true story behind the now infamous 36 questions that lead to love.
Behavior
Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?
A new study puts the “brain drain hypothesis”—the idea that just having a phone next to you impacts your cognition—to the test to see if the science passes muster...
Animals
A Honeybee Swarm Has as Much Electric Charge as a Thundercloud
New research shows that bees “buzz” in more than the way you might think.
Medicine
What Radiation-Resistant Space Fungus Can Do for Drug Discovery
Resilient fungi survived Chernobyl, was sent into space and is now being studied in California
