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Why it's time for new ways of naming life.

The timbre of a violin or a sitar can affect how dissonant music sounds to us.

It’s not just whales who were decimated, but the creatures who live where they fall.

When a misplaced sense of familiarity gives rise to delusions of place.

Frans de Waal saw animal behavior with fresh eyes and forever enriched our understanding of primates.

A conversation with artist and naturalist Zoe Keller.

A buried irony.

The visual systems of a group of mollusks reveal how future evolution depends on the past.

Nearly everything about this tiny mammal is shaped by its powers of flight.

Practiced mostly by women, this fishing tradition is thousands of years old. Can it survive?

Forensics has reached the final frontier, and could be used to solve future space accidents—or crimes.

How tiny one-celled protists pull off their strange and marvelous feats.