I’m definitely not breaking news here — ol’ Santino has been making the rounds in the past couple of days. But he deserves his fame. He’s revealed a way of thinking that’s never been so definitively attributed to non-human animals. Santino, a chimp, lives at Sweden’s Furuvik Zoo. Back in 1997, zoo keepers noticed odd piles [...]
Science will never be able to study God. But scientists are getting ever closer to describing what happens in our brains when we think about God. The idea to peek inside the brains of religious folks is not new, and it started the way many other brain studies did: by looking at brain damage. Starting [...]
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS? Seriously, this is one of the coolest studies I’ve read all week, and not just because it documents biology at temperatures as low as 4 degrees C (39 degrees F) at the bottom of Lake Huron. This is a study that says some forms of life will still thrive [...]
Carbs may have paved the way for humans to evolve two million years ago, which means low-carb diets could actually be — well, primal. Anne Stone, an anthropologist at Arizona State University in Phoenix, has been exploring the genetic underpinnings of the human shift to a starchy diet, which may have been a pivotal factor [...]
