We May Owe Our Intelligence to Our Unique Neurons

Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever?

A half a billion years ago, this organism preferred to bend to the right The post Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever? appeared first on Nautilus.

If You Want Animals to Understand You, Speak Slowly

A new study suggests almost all animal communication shares a common, slow rhythm The post If You Want Animals to Understand You, Speak Slowly appeared first on Nautilus.

The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world's largest iceberg

Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean.

Graham Platner’s campaign implosion highlights the hollowness of America’s political parties and how they can be hijacked by insurgents

Graham Platner’s Senate campaign has imploded amid credible accusations of rape. A Maine political scientist looks at what happened and how the populist Platner resembles Donald Trump in key ways.

Creating synthetic life in a lab? SpudCell falls short of the goal, but raises even more useful questions

The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it to help society.

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology