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The Original Natural Born Killers
In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.
The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus
The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.
The Greatest Animal War
Competition in Cambrian seas helped cause an explosion in diversity.
To Understand Religion, Think Football
Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.
Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial?
Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.
The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story.
Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.
In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun
A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted.