As Election Day looms with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in a dead heat[1], pollsters and pundits are scrambling for clues to predict the outcome.
But what if the answer lies not in political data or campaign strategies, but in the instincts of a primitive part of the human brain?
New research I conducted with rhesus macaque...
Take a stroll along one of the beaches on Hawaii Island in late summer, and you’ll likely stumble upon almond-shaped fruits lying in the sand. Known as false kamani nuts, or tropical almonds[1], they fall from tall, shady Terminalia catappa trees[2] that line the many picturesque ocean views on the island.
But what may not be clear to...
Kamala Harris[1], Donald Trump[2], Tim Walz[3] and JD Vance[4] all have something in common. All four of them, along with an estimated 42% of American adults[5], have lived in a home with at least one gun.
Gun ownership in the United States is widespread and cuts across all sorts of cultural divides – including race, class and political...
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem[1] around the world. When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics, infections become harder to treat.
To develop new antibiotics, researchers typically identify the genes[2] that make bacteria resistant. Through laboratory experiments, they observe how bacteria respond to...