Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...
Hawks talks about new developments in paleoanthropology – the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi in South Africa, the Neanderthal ancestry of many human populations, and the challenge of rethinking anthropological science’s relationship with indigenous peoples and the general public...
Sutter presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy...
Could cancer be a contagious disease? Although this possibility might seem surprising to many of us, it has a long history...
Clements discusses the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition...
The phytotron was not only at the center of post-war plant science, but also connected to the Cold War, commercial agriculture, and long-duration space flight...
In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...
Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?
Bekoff and Pierce reveal what smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing mean to dogs...
Eric Topol explores how AI can help to fix many of the issues medicine is facing today...