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How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
By George Longenecker Poet Joyce Thomas reminds us that our species is neither omniscient, omnipotent, nor immune from ...
Here’s what you need to know about one of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide—to secure legal ...
For decades, scientists believed modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage. However, new research has not only challenged this view, it has simultaneously spawned a new mystery ...
More information: Jordan Palli et al, The human-driven ecological success of olive trees over the last 3700 years in the Central Mediterranean, Quaternary Science Reviews (2025).
The Apprentice's Emma Street was fired alongside Melica Moshiri in the latest episode of the BBC show. Unimpressed Lord Alan Sugar shocked the candidates when he chose no winner in latest The ...
Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete has long been the guiding vision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For 250 years that ethos inspired both awe and disgust. “In my ...
But the ultimate nature of entropy, measurement, and spacetime may not exist in either the original or the refined formulation but in the toroidal symmetry that underlies them both.
Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what ...
In the wake of the Trump administration’s funding freezes and job cuts, some researchers are planning their next move. Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are ...
Scientists have put a face, but not an official name, to the earliest human ancestor ever found in Western Europe. This recently discovered hominin is a "new actor in the story of human evolution," ...
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