Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Say They’ve Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Male Fruit Flies Have Sperm That Are Nearly as Long as Their Bodies. Here’s How the Cells Don’t Become a Tangled Mess

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

How do Minions reproduce? Minions & Monsters director answers 3 extremely specific questions

Minions & Monsters is out now, and the newest movie in the Despicable Me and Minions franchise redefines what can be done ...
The New York Times

Why Do We Poison Ourselves?

The Big Ideas: What Drives Us? Evolution has fine-tuned us for success, yet we often choose self-destruction. Credit...Chloe Cushman Supported by By Meghan O’Gieblyn Meghan O’Gieblyn is a writer and ...
Forbes

Why Do Humans Lie? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains How It Helped Us Survive

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of ...
Forbes

Why Do Humans Get Dizzy? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Every human will, at least once, experience a “head spin.” Not many of us, however, will ...
Psychology Today

Conceiving of Human Understanding as a Process of Play

This post is part one of a series. The German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century, set out in his magnum opus, Truth and ...