Kristen French
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
Archaeologists Uncover Lost Opioid Tradition in Ancient Egypt
Chemical traces in a royal vase suggest the narcotic may have been a routine part of life
Falling Asleep Is More Like Plunging Off a Cliff Than We Thought
It’s not the gradual slip into darkness that scientists assumed
A Trip Around Our Surprisingly Psychedelic Planet
Inside Earth’s most hallucinatory ecosystems
Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
A new study upends conventional wisdom about how we relate to those closest to us
