When the exploration of the natural sciences become a content-ready package, an interesting and exotic morsel you might hear on Radiolab or see paired with an unsourced photo on Facebook,… Read more »

We all have that one biologist friend, right? The one who’s spent enough time in the lab and the field to be considered an authority on what in mass culture… Read more »

In what can be only described as an attempt by the scientific community to strip writers of their sexy, mysterious qualities, a group of German researchers studied the neurological activity… Read more »

Three British scientists recently took it upon themselves to conduct an extremely serious investigation into James Bond’s alcohol consumption habits, with a particular focus on whether his famous “shaken, not… Read more »

The science and technology hub RedOrbit reported this month on the University of Exeter’s recent study on reading. In his research, Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist at Exeter’s medical school, investigated not only how… Read more »

There have been many great stings in history. For instance, that time when two guys invented a great unknown Australian modernist poet and his complete works in an afternoon. But… Read more »

How do you date a text from roughly 8 B.C.E.? You track it like a geneticist. “Languages behave just extraordinarily like genes,” says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary theorist at the… Read more »

As someone with a terrible memory for faces I was oddly comforted (and slightly disturbed) to read this New Scientist article (via The Rumpus) which suggests that the human ability… 4 / Read more »