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What to Know About Mirror Life
Some scientists want to create a biological Bizarro World—is it safe? -
Are Some People Addicted to Revenge?
A new book explores what drives the brain’s sometimes insatiable quest for vengeance -
Gaia’s Got a Fever
An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal strikes -
Has Culture Overtaken Genes in Human Evolution?
How we adapt is shifting -
What Makes an Opera Star Stand Out?
A singular quality unifies favorites -
How Rodents Spread Across the Earth
One little appendage may have played a very large part -
These Aren’t Your Pharoah’s Mummies
Other cultures across Asia were preserving their dead for millennia before the Egyptians -
Long Lives Helped Early Humans Thrive
Michael Gurven on the 3 greatest revelations he had while writing Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer -
The Dinos’ Demise Gave Rivers Their Shape
Their extinction left an indelible mark on the landscape -
We Owe It All to Figs
Our primate ancestors’ love of the complex fruit changed the world -
DNA’s Death Notice
See original manuscripts, letters, photos, and jokes from luminaries like Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug, and Linus Pauling -
Can I Give You Some Advice?
Probably not
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Does Musical Taste Narrow with Age?
What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve
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Rogue Wave Mystery Solved
Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it
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Why I Became a Birdwatcher
Learning to look past indifference and into the mystery of life -
Meet the Asteroids Next Door
A radar system is set to map near-Earth objects as they fly by -
When Nature Burst Into Vivid Color
Which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them? -
When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances -
You Can Help NASA Track Hurricane Damage
Cell phone photos can help in recovery efforts