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Life Began With a Planetary Mega-Organism
Once upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a...
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Why the Higgs Boson Matters
From afar it may seem entirely disconnected from the real world, but the Higgs boson is much more integral...
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The Noble Gases Get to Work
Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radioactive radon are odourless, tasteless, practically non-reactive wisps of unconnected atoms. In this...
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Lynn Margulis: 1938-2011
Lynn Margulis is justly celebrated for her determined claim that the eukaryotic cell (the more complex cell with a...
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Oxygen a Bit Player in Earth’s Outer Core
Oxygen makes up a smaller percentage of the core than scientists had thought, suggests a study in Nature. Knowing...
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Are We the Teachable Species?
It’s certainly true that teaching comes naturally to us humans. There’s no culture on Earth without teachers. But just...
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Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees
The world is even smaller than you thought. Adding a new chapter to the research that cemented the phrase...
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Is Civilization a Bad Idea?
We don’t want to ask the question: Is civilization good for you (or me)? Instead we want to ask:...
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The Beginning of Infinity
Jason Silva is moved by physicist David Deutsch’s idea that the universe will eventually be shaped by the human...
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“New” Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution
When an international team of researchers scanned the human genome for “de novo” genes, they putatively uncovered 60, three...
