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A great deal of medicine and thoughts that astronauts take to space addresses the unusual and confined environment of microgravity in which they [...]

We tend to lessen physical effort in almost everything we do, including using language. We say “bye” instead of “goodbye” [...]

Biological, social and economic schemes are some of the real-world systems we are most familiar with. These systems evolve all the time. And [...]

New research has it that evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. It echoes what Nobel laureate François Jacob famously [...]

Tetrapods are four-limbed animals. Therefore the discovery of a “tetrapod-like” fish called Elpistostege is intriguing. The nearly complete fossil specimen [...]

In a thought experiment of historian Yuval Noah Harari, a hypothetical government insists that every citizen should wear a biometric bracelet. This device [...]

“The Ministry of Silly Walks” is a sketch from a Monty Python comedy troupe’s TV episode. It is a jibe [...]

These days we hear a lot about people affected by COVID-19 and also about people arrested for spreading misinformation on [...]

Sometimes we need extreme measures to keep things at bay. And right now the world needs a “North-European Enclosure Dam” [...]

Some elite Paralympic sprinters face an unsettling hurdle. Before stepping on the track in an authorised race, they need to [...]

Sentience (“qualia”) is the ability to have subjective perceptual experiences. Scholars differentiate it from qualities such as creativity, intelligence and [...]

Alcohol and tobacco don’t have the prerogative to generate diseases readily associated with drinking and smoking. At the same time, disgusting graphics employed [...]