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How Big Is Your Family?

Living with a Papua New Guinea tribe in the ’80s presented this anthropologist with a question for today.

December 9, 2024

Star Siblings Tell Tales of Galactic Chaos

Stellar bodies from other galaxies are all around us.

December 9, 2024

Why Do Animals Adopt?

Taking responsibility for another’s young reveals the deep evolutionary roots of care.

December 9, 2024

When Songbird Couples Split

A warming climate may cause more bird couples to break up.

December 6, 2024

Is Technology Worthy of Our Faith?

Harvard and MIT humanist chaplain Greg M. Epstein on his 3 greatest revelations while writing Tech Agnostic.

December 5, 2024

An Archaeological Reckoning

Jennifer Raff is on a mission to rewrite the history of human origins in the Americas.

December 4, 2024

Voyagers Ready to Go Dark

Earth's most distant space probes prepare for their inevitable long night.

December 3, 2024

The Vanishing Coast of Louisiana

Timelapse photographs documenting life on the bayou.

December 2, 2024

An Artful Seduction

Bowerbirds arrange flowers, dung, and shotgun shells to create elaborate love shacks.

December 2, 2024

That Healing Sound

When music is medicine.

November 29, 2024

The New Climate Math on Hurricanes

For the first time, we can calculate how much climate change impacts a single storm’s severity.

November 27, 2024

Consciousness Has a Psychology Problem

The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

November 27, 2024