Adaptation

Tech

What Woolly Mammoth Extinction Tells Us About Our Rapidly-Changing Future

08.04.16

By Bryson Masse
Tech

Some Cities Are Falling Behind in Preparing For the Effects of Climate Change

07.08.16

By Stephen Buranyi
Tech

Neuroscientists Hack the Brain’s Circuitry for Winning and Losing

03.31.16

By Michael Byrne
Jamaica, Gangs, Guns, and Black Hobbits: A Talk with Booker Prize Winner Marlon James

12.04.15

By Storm Saulter
Tech

This Robot Mom Builds Kids and Judges Which Is Best

08.12.15

By Emiko Jozuka
Tech

This Plant Covers Itself in Insect Corpses as a Grim Defense Mechanism

07.25.15

By Michael Byrne
Entertainment

The World’s Reserves of ‘Game of Thrones’ Are Running Dangerously Low

05.27.15

By David Perry
Pulse

If Governors Keep Their Heads in the Sand on Climate Change, It Could Cost them Millions

05.13.15

By Laura Dattaro
Entertainment

Watch a Supercut Tribute to Spike Jonze’s Stunning Cinematography

05.01.15

By Beckett Mufson
Sassafras Lowrey’s ‘Lost Boi’ Reimagines Peter Pan for the Genderqueer Generation

04.25.15

By Hugh Ryan
Entertainment

Thomas Cromwell, Dead Since 1540, Is Television’s Hottest Star

04.24.15

By Aidan Flax-Clark
Pulse

Investors See Green in Financing Clean Energy Projects

03.30.15

By Matt Smith

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Horoscopes

Weekly Horoscope: August 9-August 15

How will your sign fare this week, stargazer?

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By Ashley Fike
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Music

5 Hip-Hop Songs That Are Most Memorable for Their Classic Hooks

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By Caleb Catlin
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Science

Why NASA Wants to Send a Laser-Powered Drone Into Caves Beneath the Moon

The LUX concept would use a fiber-optic tether to explore lunar caves that could shelter future moon bases.

9 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Health

Your Desk Height Could Be Messing With Your Brain, New Study Finds

Researchers found upright posture was linked to more calculated risk-taking and stronger feelings of pride.

9 hours ago

By Luis Prada
A much, much older Chilean mummy than those in question. Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images

Science

Scientists Found Smallpox DNA Hidden in 500-Year-Old Chilean Mummies

Researchers accidentally recovered variola DNA from two Indigenous adults buried during the early colonial era.

9 hours ago

By Luis Prada