Dogs have been in the Americas for more than 10,000 years. They were already domesticated when they came from Eurasia…
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Around a decade ago, an invasive fungal disease called myrtle rust reached Australia and began to spread like a plague…
Recently, one of my acquaintances, Frank, received an email late on a Monday afternoon with the subject line, “Are you…
Prescription drugs and vaccines revolutionized health care, dramatically decreasing death from disease and improving quality of life across the globe.…
Humans have been making fire using friction for thousands of years, with evidence of its use found in archaeological records…
What comes to mind when you think about winter? Snowflakes? Mittens? Reindeer? In much of the Northern Hemisphere, winter means…
In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his breakthrough discovery creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in…
On the shopfloor of a Dutch machine manufacturer called Hankamp Gears, workers remove bulky equipment from a pallet, lift the…
A recent New York Times article released a list of people “behind the dawn of the modern artificial intelligence movement”…
It’s one of the great paradoxes of evolution. Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary…