Pocket Archive: Science, History & Discovery

We can’t see them, but they are all around us. On us. In us. Our personal microbes have us outnumbered by orders of magnitude, but scientists are only beginning to understand how they influence our health and other aspects of our lives. It’s an increasingly hot area of science, though, and this past year saw lots of interesting developments. Here are some of the highlights.

Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has been searching for the world’s oldest trees for the past 14 years. She has traveled all around the globe to capture the most magnificent trees that grow in remote locations and look as old as the world itself.

Night was once the only thing that put the human agenda on hold.

Richard Dawkins reads from his book 'Unweaving the Rainbow'"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because...

The nature of consciousness, the mechanism by which it occurs in the brain, and its ultimate place in the universe are unknown. We proposed in the mid…

WOW: High-Desert Telescope Spies Planets Being Born

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Francis goes against Benedict XVI’s apparent support for 'intelligent design' - but does hail his predecessor’s 'great contribution to theology'

Science is unlocking how we humans interpret the world and each other, giving rise to a new approach to sales with the fancy title 'neuromarketing.'

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Tim Flach wants us to look at animals the way we look at people. Not so much to humanize them, but to get humans to consider how they relate to animals.