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Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications
New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.
In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun
A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.
Why It Pays to Play Around
Play is so important that nature invented it long before it invented us.
Game of Thrones and the Evolutionary Significance of Storytelling
Why do we hate narratives that go wrong?
Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.
The nation's political center is also home to a rich geological history, found in both natural rock outcrops and the diverse suite of evocative building stones and monuments.
Redefining Dinosaurs: Paleontologists are Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree to its Roots.
A radical reconfiguration of the long-standing dinosaur family tree challenges an orthodoxy built on roughly a century and a half of research.
Juno Unveils Jupiter’s Secrets
The NASA mission has turned our knowledge of Jupiter “upside down.”
The Ancient Rites That Gave Birth to Religion
Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.
