This colorful, nature-forward adventure directed by Daniel Chong and penned by Jesse Andrews tells a tale of humans using a highly advanced technology — “hopping” — to transfer their consciousnesses ...

“The Intimate Animal” explores how dating apps cause people to raise their expectations—and walk into first dates with preconceived notions. The following is an excerpt from The Intimate Animal: The ...

The ways people interact with and view nature speak volumes as to how Earth is treated, and the severity of environmental concerns rising makes what shapes people's view of nature a pertinent topic.

“I couldn’t help seducing my best friend’s wife. It’s just my nature.” “I’m a hothead. I admit it. I was born that way. Deal with it.” “You say I’m a liar, but I say you’re a loser. I’m good at lying, ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

In 2002, a strong Arctic high pressure system started from the Canadian Rockies and dove south into Montana and the Dakotas. That's where our current system starts, though models show it being a bit ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government ...

More than 50 years ago, Jane Goodall stunned the scientific community by reporting that chimpanzees in Tanzania were using tools, inserting twigs into termite mounds to extract the insects. This ...

If you want to know a political leader’s governing philosophy, you could cut through a lot of bluster by just asking them who their guy is: John Locke or Thomas Hobbes? Anyone who’s taken Poli Sci 101 ...

Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet when it comes to discussing queer ...

One of the most enduring myths in modern civilization is that war is inevitable…that killing is embedded in human nature, and that violence is our default state. This story is repeated so often that ...