Mammals that hibernate have smaller brains than those that don’t, suggesting that hibernation limits brain size…
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It may be impossible to evolve a large brain if you hibernate
Mammals that hibernate have smaller brains than those that don’t, suggesting that hibernation limits brain size…
The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma
Neither extreme prohibition nor extreme liberalism is a sensible drugs policy – on medical cannabis and…
Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought
The Totten and Moscow University glaciers in east Antarctica have lost billions of tonnes of ice…
Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought
The Totten and Moscow University glaciers in east Antarctica have lost billions of tonnes of ice…
Spying on whales: The shocking truth about humans and whales
Despite centuries of commercial whaling, we know astonishingly little about the largest creature that ever lived,…
Time travel to Augusts past: cold cod, thawing mammoths, frozen nerves
Old Scientist returns to topics we covered in 1961, 1981 and 1994 and finds that heatwaves…
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Listen to mind-expanding podcasts, discover the problem with disappearing sand – and watch a new film…
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Listen to mind-expanding podcasts, discover the problem with disappearing sand – and watch a new film…
There’s no escaping the internet, says artist James Bridle
In New Dark Age, James Bridle expends no little shoe leather mapping the current walls of…