All biologist Chadden Hunter wants to know is what “the girls” are after. “Would you go for his golden mane? His nice pink chest patch? Would it be how attentive he is, how much he grooms you, how much he looks after the kids?” he asks. Hunter is an ...
Davis with Kofán shamans in Ecuador. Image courtesy of Peter Von Putterkamer/ Gryphon Productions On a break from college, Wade Davis, age 20 at the time, crossed the Darién Gap—the roadless, desolate, and dangerous 100-mile stretch of swamp that ...
The lead in your new movie can teleport. Do you envy him? Nothing would make life more convenient. I’m a pilot, and flying in your own little plane is probably the closest thing to teleportation that exists today in terms of how many things you can get ...
Hope you enjoyed it, 'cause it wasn't around long. 12.05.2007 What works and what doesn’t—not that you should try this at home.11.19.2007 The doomsday rock is out there. It’s just a matter of time...11.01.2007 Super lasers, binoculars that read minds, ...
The world’s biggest flower—which weighs 15 pounds and smells of rotting flesh—evolved from one of the world’s smallest, say the scientists who have finally figured out to which plants Rafflesia is most closely related. It has been hard to place ...
One hundred twenty years after it was first discovered, mathematicians have successfully mapped out a 248-dimensional object called E8. The complete description of E8—one of the most complicated structures in all of mathematics—is a table with more ...
A golden beetle can turn itself brick red in under two minutes. 12.14.2007 Hormone researchers seek new life for old brains and bones. 12.13.2007 You might as well understand the stuff that could soon paralyze your car. 12.12.2007 There's a reason the ...
A hammerhead shark in a Nebraska zoo didn’t have sex for three years and still had a pup (the DNA maternity results were confirmed in May). She’s not the first to reproduce without a mate. A virgin Komodo dragon in England laid a clutch that hatched in ...
They just don't make two-foot dragonflies like they used to. Here's why. 11.02.2007 Chop up their DNA and the buggers still keep comin' back to life.10.31.2007 Combined with a GPS beak, it leads them on marathon migrations.10.30.2007 Researchers infer ...
In the play “Lucy,” an emotionally distant anthropologist (Lisa Emery) decides that her severely autistic daughter Lucy (Lucy DeVito) is not sick. Instead, says the hermit scientist, she is the future: Lucy’s lack of connection to other human beings is ...
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