Space & Physics
The Crazy Scale of Human Carbon Emission
Want some perspective on how much carbon dioxide human activity produces? Here it is
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Evolution
How Hobbits Happened: The Evolution of Homo floresiensis
New fossils shed light on the origin of the unusual human relative known as ‘the hobbit’. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on June 8, 2016. ..
Culture
Ancient Sculpture Garden Was Built by Neandertals
In a cave in France archaeologists have found some of the oldest human constructions ever discovered — but no one knows what they are. Nature Video takes a look. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on May 25, 2016...
Mind & Brain
Why We Wonder Why
Humans are curious creatures, and our curiosity drives a search for explanations. So while this search may fit squarely in the realm of science, it is hardly confined to the pursuits of scientists and intellectuals...
A Genome is Not a Blueprint
Image: 1936 Joy Oil gas station blueprints (top); sequence from human chromosome 1 (bottom). Source: from A Monkey’s Blueprint by Martin Krzywinski on SA Visual When artist Martin Krzywinski was challenged to come up with a graphic that quickly and concisely shows how the human genome is more similar to chimpanzee and bonobo genomes than [...]..
Mind & Brain
Is It Possible To Forget? Investigating the Suppression of Memories
Everyone has experiences happen to them that they'd rather forget about. Every so often though, you might have a reminder of that experience: perhaps someone says something to you or you see something that jogs your memory...
Biology
What Are You Looking At? Is Gaze-Following Uniquely Human?
Imagine that you walk into a room, where three people are sitting, facing you. Their faces are oriented towards you, but all three of them have their eyes directed towards the left side of the room...
Parallels between Shrimp and Human Color Vision
Despite tremendous differences in human versus shrimp eye structure and brain circuitry, the striking similarity between the color sensitivities of primate brain color-selective neurons and shrimp photoreceptors provides evidence of a common computational strategy across extremely divergent species...
How Much Nature Do We Have to Use?
Its so easy to slip into debt, but so hard to dig oneself out. Just ask the typical wage earnereven business and national leaders. People who know better still wait for that next paycheck, assumed pay raise or small miracle to help them catch up...
Mind & Brain
Plenty of Pheromones in the Sea
As we sat in my car outside a silent movie theater in Los Angeles, my friend anxiously opened a plastic bag containing a white T-shirt she’d slept in for the past three nights.
The Dark Side of Power Posing: Cape or Kryptonite?
In 1942, the mild mannered Clark Kent excused himself from his friend Lois Lane to take an important call. Clark slipped into a phone booth (remember those?), and moments later Superman emerged...
Mind & Brain
The Sorriest Animal: Why We Seek Forgiveness
Investigators explore how to use an apology effectively
Mind & Brain
The Misunderstood Penis
Gordon Gallup sets the record straight on the semen displacement theory
