Author Neil Shubin’s long career in evolutionary biology began with fossil hunting — especially for ancient fish with limbs, finds that help explain the development of terrestrial life — and extended ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The universe continually reminds us that our understanding of reality remains deeply incomplete, despite the billions invested in ...

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a “great conjunction” of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared as one ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

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This post was co-authored with Ralph Weir, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to ...

Today, 80 percent of all the energy used in the world comes from burning fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas. Though mostly invisible — every minute of every day, all around the world — there are ...

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As families gear up for the latest entry in the Jurassic franchise, we spoke to the guy behind the de-extinction of the Dire Wolf to get his thoughts on the science in the new film. Jurassic World ...