Does Drug Use Lead to Addiction, or Are Some Brains More Prone To Use Drugs?
Researchers argue that "we may need to reevaluate the causal assumptions that underlie brain disease models of addiction."
Biology
The First Colored Eggs Appeared Long Before Easter
The dinosaur ancestors of birds laid blue, brown, and speckled eggs as far back as 150 million years ago.
The Case of the AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis
How did an obviously fabricated article end up in a peer-reviewed journal?
Be Skeptical of the New Artificial Sweetener Scare
Plus: Liberal teens are more depressed than conservative ones, the outsize role of immigrants in U.S. innovation, and more...
Michael Shermer: 'Women Are Not Just Tits and Ass. There's More to It Than That, a Lot More.'
The best-selling author of Why People Believe Weird Things sees a fundamental clash between wokeness and scientific inquiry.
What Technology Can Learn From Biology
Can humans design products that assemble (and disassemble) themselves?
Biohackers Are on a Secret Hunt for the Coronavirus Vaccine
DIY biologists propose creating a public domain SARS-CoV-2 vaccine with $25,000 in funding.
The 'Negativity Effect' Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister want to defeat The Power of Bad.
Newly Released Files Document the FBI's Participation in the Hunt for Bigfoot
During the 1970s, an FBI crime lab analyzed a purported sample of Bigfoot hair.
Want to Hack Your Own Body? Neo.Life's Jane Metcalfe Is Making It Easier Than Ever
Wired's co-founder talks about the "Neobiological Revolution" and what happens when computer science and engineering meet evolution.
Bad Science Behind Campus-Rape Guidance Echoes '80s Trauma Myths
The "neurobiology of trauma" on campus is based more on social-justice goals than science. We've been here before.
Are Kids Depressed Because They Don't Just Play Anymore?
Boston College psychologist Peter Gray says a cultural shift in child rearing is having dire consequences.
My 'Warrior Gene' and My Propensity for Criminality
It's way too early to start putting people like me in jail based on our genomes
Is Complexity Science Ready for Prime Time?
Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal review of A Crude Look at the Whole
Good Stuff Comes from the Bottom Up
How culture, economies, technology, and government evolve
Bringing Biohacking to the Masses Is Latest Aim of Andreessen Horowitz
The savvy venture capitalists at Andreessen Horowitz are now banking on "smart drug" startup Nootrobox.
Drunken Recklessness May Be Genetic
A "relatively common" genetic mutation may trigger poor impulse control, especially when drinking.
Hacking the Programs in Your Mind: Interview with Evolutionary Psychologists Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.
Oldest Big Cat Fossils Ever Found Unearthed in Tibet
Panthera blytheae, "similar to a snow leopard"
Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Cell Traffic Research
Two Americans, German win award
Suriname Rain Forest Expedition Discovers 60 New Species
Including the cocoa frog, pictured
Study: Earth May Have Had Oxygen Earlier Than Previously Thought
Discovery may have implications for possibility of extra-terrestrial life
California Scientists Find Four New Species of Legless Lizards
Not snakes, apparently
Ugly Animal Preservation Society Poll Names Blob Fish World's Ugliest Animal
Looking out for the uggos
Tiny Frog Listens With Its Mouth
Gardiner's Seychelles Frog comes in at 11 millimeters
Researchers: Wolf Howling Linked to Social Structure
Howls correlate with social standing
Zoologists Discover New Mammal Species in Andes Rain Forests
The olinguito is a member of the raccoon family
Dolphins Can Remember a Friend's Whistle Twenty Years Later
Longest social memory observed in non-humans
New Fossil Evidence Provides Oldest Complete Skeleton of Primate
Distant human ancestor was tiny, hyperactive
Scientists Name Giant Prehistoric Lizard After Jim Morrison
He is the lizard king
Glowing Cockroach, Blue Butt Monkey Among Newly Named Species of 2012
On a top 10 list, in fact
Scientists: Arctic Bacteria Could Be Key to Understanding How Life on Mars Could Exist
Some parts of Earth might as well be an alien planet
Scientist: 12 Centimeter Skeleton Used in UFO Documentary Definitely Human
Suffered from severe dwarfism and died at age 6 or 7, or of rapid aging and died in the womb or after a premature birth
