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Turns out there are many good reasons why you’d want to brain-scan dead people. Vaughan Bell discusses.

“But like all fairy tales, the one about talking apes is partly make-believe.” Jane Hu on the strange, disturbing world of Koko the gorilla and Kanzi the bonobo.

That lovely smell after the rain is called “petrichor“. It’s also a signal for plants. By Joe Hanson.

A new study on what happens when people feel “in the zone“, by Virginia Hughes who seems to live there permanently

This really is a wonderful piece about breaking into a secret ecosystem, trapped in