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When Dogs First Became Man’s Best Friend

Ancient canid DNA pushes date of dog domestication back millennia

April 2, 2026

Meet the Arthropod That Originated Fangs

The granddaddy of spiders pushes back the evolutionary clock

April 2, 2026

How Sleep Cleans the Brain

A fresh look at your nightly brainwashing

April 1, 2026

Can Plants Count?

It seems as though they can at least track the number of events in their environment

April 1, 2026

Making AI More Human

An interview with Berkeley researcher and author Nina Begus about her new book and proposal to fuse science and the humanities

April 1, 2026

Why Seals Twitch Their Whiskers

And the trade-offs inherent to every twitch

April 1, 2026

The Big-Game Elephants Neanderthals Hunted for Food

A prehistoric butcher bonanza uncovered on an ancient German lakeshore

March 31, 2026

A Very Unscientific History of Scientific Hoaxes

The past, present, and future of academic deception

March 31, 2026

Who Gets to Do Science?

An interview with a neuroscientist who spent the last decade tearing down the class, race, and language barriers that keep people like him out of research

March 31, 2026

What Sharks Attacked 5 Million Years Ago

It wasn’t a great time to be a beluga-like whale

March 31, 2026

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

March 30, 2026