1. As environments become more complex and interconnected, modularity becomes essential. Living systems reduce risk by compartmentalizing—organs, tissues, and cells can fail without killing the ...

The video examines five animals whose diets differ sharply from common assumptions. Visual examples contrast public perception with documented feeding behavior observed in the wild. In several cases, ...

Pumas returning to Patagonia have begun hunting mainland penguins that evolved without land predators. Scientists estimate ...

What may finally push classic vending machines toward extinction isn’t wear and tear, but the industry’s shift from analog to ...

Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

Given Bad Bunny’s history of speaking out on environmental issues in Puerto Rico, his example sets an intriguing precedent ...

Artificial intelligence researchers are now publicly divided over how dangerous their own systems might become, even as some senior staff quietly leave the biggest labs building those tools. Two ...

There are no greater threats to the future survival of humanity than the climate emergency and militarism. From an evolutionary perspective, both are attempts at survival that have gone badly awry.

Birds such as the Mandarin duck, scarlet macaw, and lilac-breasted roller come in colors that seem to defy reality. Some ...

But then there was this – a talk between Peter Danenberg and James Rubin, around orienting products to a user audience.

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical ...

Welcome to this, your weekend edition of the 5QT, brought to you in part by excessive outrage and also by excessive wine. No, ...