Tag: evolution
What’s behind America’s pickle craze?
Kenneth Symsack, Colorado State University and Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Move over bacon and ranch dressing. There’s a...
When was talking invented? A language scientist explains how this unique...
Richard Futrell, University of California, Irvine
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
Deer have antlers, walruses have tusks – here’s why so few...
Alexandre V. Palaoro, Clemson University and João C. T. Menezes, UMass Amherst
Mating season in the animal kingdom can...
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
When and how was walking invented?
Jan Simek, University of Tennessee
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
Genetic GPS system of animal development explains why limbs grow from...
Ethan Bier, University of California San Diego
Why do human look like humans, rather than like chimps? Although we...
Cellphone data shows that people navigate by keeping their destinations in...
Carlo Ratti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Think of your morning walk to work, school or your favorite coffee...
Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants...
Robert Schofield, University of Oregon
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
