Kristen French
When a Chimp Screams, What Do You Hear?
The calls of our closest living evolutionary cousins still hit an ancient target in the human brain
What Makes a Word Beautiful?
It’s not what we thought
ChatGPT’s Biggest Foe: Poetry
How the machines miss threats smuggled inside lines of verse
Tiny Volcano-Dwelling Creature Breaks Heat Record
The fire amoeba challenges assumptions about what complex life needs to survive on Earth
The Five Eras of the Human Brain
Our neural command centers evolve through predictable major turning points from birth to death
The Math Shows Jackson Pollock Painted Like a Child Would
And that might be what made the artist so famous
This Ancient Sea Monster Had a Killer Bite and No Teeth
The Dunkleosteus was even weirder than we thought
The Rise of the Ancient Bogs
It was driven by the wind, and could tell us about the future of the climate
The Science of Your Weed’s Stank
Researchers classified 25 scents that make your weed smell, including skunk, candy, toasted bread, and vomit
The Medieval Friar Who Foretold Carl Sagan’s “Star-Stuff”
Before science could prove it, this philosopher saw our place in the stars