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Primates’ Brains Make Visual Maps Using Triangular Grids
Primates’ brains see the world through triangular grids, according to a new study published online in the journal Nature....
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How Paintballs Could Save Earth From Giant Asteroid Impact
An epic battle between paintballs and a giant asteroid could one day save the Earth from an apocalyptic space...
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Technology Close to Cracking Oldest Undeciphered Writing System
Scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton have created a technique called reflectance transformation imaging...
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Remembering Paul Kurtz
Herb Silverman for On Faith’s Guest Voices, reflecting on the life and contributions of Paul Kurtz, who died October...
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Thawing Permafrost Could Release 850 Billion Tons of Carbon
As much as 44 billion tons of nitrogen and 850 billion tons of carbon stored in arctic permafrost, or...
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Far From Random, Evolution Follows a Predictable Genetic Pattern
Evolution, often perceived as a series of random changes, might in fact be driven by a simple and repeated...
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Impact of Adversity on Early Life Development
Adversity during childhood can help someone build persistence and self-control a new study suggests, with implications for nature vs....
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Climate Change May Alter Amphibian Evolution
Most of the more than 6,000 species of frogs in the world lay their eggs in water. But many...
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David Deutsch: Constructor Theory
There’s a notorious problem with defining information within physics, namely that on the one hand information is purely abstract,...
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Early Human ‘Lucy’ Swung From the Trees
Despite the ability to walk upright, early relatives of humanity represented by the famed “Lucy” fossil likely spent much...