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Outgoing Gorillas Live Longer Than Shy Ones
Extroverted gorillas in captivity outlive their shy brethren, a new study of these great apes in North American zoos...
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Feeling Disgust May Enhance Our Ability to Detect Impurities
Disgust – it’s an emotion we experience when we encounter things that are dirty, impure, or otherwise contaminated. From...
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Omnipotence Needs No Defense and Other Obvious Theological Truths
Egypt is at the crossroads. Its emerging constitution, however, betrays the brightest hopes of the so-called Arab Spring. A...
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What NYC Would Look Like Buried in its Own Carbon Emissions
One of the many reasons why people fail to acknowledge the seriousness of greenhouse gas emissions is that they’re...
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New Contender for Oldest Dinosaur
Palaeontologists have found what is likely to be the oldest known dinosaur, filling in a yawning evolutionary gap. A...
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After Kyoto
On January 1, 2013, the world can go back to emitting greenhouse gases with abandon. The pollution-reduction commitments that...
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Did the Dalai Lama Just Call for an End to Religion?
The Dalai Lama recommends a radical new approach: a religionless religion, if you will, stripped of myth, superstition, and...
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Why Seeing Is Believing – Usually – When It Comes to Climate Change
Political leaders haven’t moved on global warming because they’re not feeling widespread public pressure to do so. And the...
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Loss of Habitat Threatens Africa’s Lion Population
The savannah habitat that sustains African lions has shrunk by 75 percent over the past half-century, according to a...
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New Age of Exploration in the Hunt for Extreme Life
A two-billion-dollar robot scoops up pale-red samples on the surface of Mars to search for chemical clues in the...