A review of the new book Curious Behavior, which delves into the quirks of human conduct.
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A review of the new book Curious Behavior, which delves into the quirks of human conduct.
A new initiative offers gold stars to researchers willing to have their studies replicated by other labs, but will it fix science’s growing irreproducibility problem?
Choreographer Merce Cunningham achieved a kind of immortality by employing technology to capture a solo dance that he never taught to his pupils.
Simply disclosing conflicts of interest is not enough.
Financial hardships of young scientists in training are forcing many talented researchers to find new careers.
Evolving the ability to run may also have made our ancestors smarter, suggesting that exercise can be healthy for the brain as well as the body.
Genomic analyses reveal that the polar bear evolved between 4 and 5 million years ago, far earlier than previous studies had estimated.
Much of what researchers believe about the public and effective communication is wrong.
A relatively new pair of sex chromosomes in the fruit fly allows researchers to track their evolution from the beginning.
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