Portside

The origin of the domestic cat, Felis catus, is radically different from the origin stories of our other domestic animals. All of them are deliberate human creations. Cats appear to have domesticated themselves.

A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.

The shock election result in Britain has been attributed to the youth vote, leading to claims that younger voters don’t/can’t understand the issues at stake. Are the concerns valid?

Distributing entangled photons over large distances could eventually be used to establish unhackable communications via what’s known as quantum cryptography.

With algorithms in hand, scientists are looking to make elections in the United States more representative.

Whether this week’s test is successful or not, the GMD system is still far from being able to provide reliable protection from a real-world missile threat.

Using brain waves researchers were able to make almost perfect replicas of human faces shown to monkeys – raising prospect of thoughts being accessible to exploration

The research predicts that a nuclear war fought between emerging nuclear weapon states—with less than 1 percent of the explosive power contained in the global nuclear arsenals—can produce catastrophic long-term damage to global environment and weather. A war fought with 100 atomic bombs can result in the coldest average annual surface temperatures experienced in the last 1,000 years, and this prolonged cold (and drought) would last for several years.

Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristic” fits into modern evolutionary theory.