4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (879+ words) Science has explained an extraordinary amount about the world around us. But one of its most elusive subjects remains remarkably close to home: ourselves. What made humans the way we are? How did we acquire our extraordinary capacities for consciousness,…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (227+ words) A new paper believes that in an already seismically active Arctic region, permafrost degradation can weaken the ice that helps to bind fractures within rock. The frozen water within these fractures, which helped to stabilize the volcanic slopes for thousands…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (341+ words) There is only one way to stay at a healthy weight; burn more calories than you ingest. High-fructose corn syrup does not matter, organic food does not matter, gluten-free doesn't matter. Even quinoa doesn't matter. In biology, only calories matter....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (184+ words) Gather 'round, listeners, and learn of the storytelling ape. A new paper suggests that storytelling may have have been why human communication evolved from the ape-like systems our primate cousins still use to complex human language. The reasoning is that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (462+ words) In 2009, with a Democrat back in the White House, corporate science and medical journal publishers asked Rep. John Conyers, Jr. of Detroit, a staunch ally of President Obama, to get the new president to issue an executive order and undo…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) Neuroscience treats consciousness as something produced by the brain but a recent paper suggests that conscious experience is shaped through a continuous, rhythmic dialogue between the brain and body; the regular, predictable signals around which groups of neurons can organize…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (180+ words) An old saying is that dogs age seven years for each human one and a new study finds that the comparisons between humans and man's best friend are even closer than that. The interesting part was when they compared the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) Thinking used to be so fast that it was the pinnacle of speed to people. In 1849, Hermann von Helmholtz set out to make the mystical quantifiable and measured nerve impulses. They were electrical and electricity could be measured. He did…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (878+ words) Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This “climate doom” narrative can dominate the news cycle, particularly on social media, which is known…...