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How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.

Studies of collective behavior usually focus on how crowds of organisms coordinate their actions. But what if the individuals that don’t participate have just as much to tell us?

China’s health codes allow people to resume their lives with confidence. At what cost?

It’s time to consider how we can have more animals in our daily lives in the city.

Community health centers, a lifeline for Americans, are in critical condition.

A lizard that both lays eggs and gives birth to live young is helping scientists understand how and why these forms of reproduction evolved.

A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.

Panpsychists look at the many degrees of complexity in nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.

Anyons don’t fit into either of the two known particle kingdoms. To find them, physicists had to erase the third dimension.

The COVID-19 crisis has made the dark energy of evolution visible.

Like earthquakes and forest fires, outbreaks have a “heavy tail” of large events.

It’s a fine line between oblivion and immortality.