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This cute discovery of multipurpose tool use by Veronika the cow got me and other editors here thinking about the bounds of animal intelligence. For instance, I often wonder what is happening inside my dog, Daisy’s brain - when she...
Do you have a good story about using Wikipedia for science or research? What are your favorite science pages on Wikipedia? And if there are any Wikipedians here, what do you like to focus on and how did you get...
Let’s swing for the fences with this one, shall we? Some questions are timeless because they’re so fundamental that everyone ponders them at some point in life (often—for me at least—in the shower). Others are timeless because, regardless of how many...
Whether we’re talking about Artemis II—the first crewed lunar mission since the early 1970s—or the launch of NASA’s latest “flagship” astrophysics mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, or nail-biting test flights of SpaceX’s revolutionary Starship mega-rocket, this year should...