Why you should be concerned about species extinction
Most of you were probably taught that “extinction is forever.” Heck, you may have even bought a T-shirt with that logo on it, hoping that…
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What does it sound like when doves cry? Much to the dismay of the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince, according…
Close encounter
The universe is beginning to look a lot less lonely than it used to. The probability of all of the components coming together in an…
The science of hatred
In the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis play siblings whose rivalry and hatred for each other almost…
Better know a prokaryote
Escherichia coli, or E. coli, as its friends know it, has gotten a pretty bad rap lately. From tainting water supplies in Walkerton, Ontario to…
Human versus machine
In the boardrooms, laboratories and command centres of space agencies around the world a war is coming — a war, which will pit burley astronauts,…
Out of the minds of babes
Developmental psychologists are fond of telling us that we can, contrary to popular opinion, read each other’s minds. The initial excitement of this prospect quickly…
Dr. Know
Cordial greetings once more, thou hairless arthropoid. Things are really rolling now, so I’ll need to try my very best not to overwhelm your itsy-bitsy…
Ask a scientist
What causes brain freeze? Since, according to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), it is the most common cause of headache, odds are most of you…
Zoological investigations IV
The golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus was not formally discovered until the ripe old year of 1987 on that beautiful and mysterious island located off…