All my friends are confused.
We keep changing our majors. We do not know what to do with those majors. We are looking for jobs, not so much for saving or for growth, but because we need the money, and we need it now. We oversleep and we never sleep.…
More than other seasons in which we go on vacation or complain about ice, fall tends to bring out the scholar in most people.
Theodore Meir Bikel remembered
Mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others. The implications for world health are enormous.
The humble cockatoo. Smarter than you think. (CC: David Cook Wildlife Photography)
Plant neurobiologists argue the ways in which plants demonstrate behaviors that look very much like intelligence, memory, learning, and decision-making. Rather than relying on a brain and neurons, plants use a decentralized network, but both plants and…
No one will starve to death if honeybees disappea. But our food choices will be severely limited.
With 2010's Plain Writing Act, the U.S. government launched an official war against the "gobbledygook" and bureaucratize it helped create.
The difference between the authentic and the fabricated is not always so clear.
Scientists have been studying the calls of a whale dubbed “the loneliest whale in the world” for more than 20 years. Its calls are unusually high pitched—52 hertz, versus the typical 15-20 hertz range of blue whales. No one has ever seen the 52-hertz whale, but scientists believe he…
The awe-inspiring mantis shrimp. Photo by: Flickr/Silke Baron
There is a long-standing puzzle about the wiring of the human eye: why was it wired backwards? The inside-out vertebrate retina has always been presented as an example of inefficient structure locked in by development and evolutionary history. Some recent research has…