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Adaptation Strategies
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
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Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
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Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.
The cannabis plant produces both THC – the psychoactive component in marijuana – and the compound commonly known as CBD, which does not lead to a "high."
Humanity is in trouble. Here's how aliens could help.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value.
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Should you blast the A/C even when you're not at home?
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and "deserts."
The "Mind After Midnight" hypothesis aims to explain why night owls tend to suffer more negative health outcomes.
Evolutionary psychology could explain those otherworldly feelings.
A skills gap analysis can help an organization prepare for change and become well-equipped to thrive in the future.
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
Some of the coastal areas were not repopulated for millennia afterward, showing that there was a long-lasting memory of this tragic event.
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn't help. Only physics explains why.