杏吧原创

Features

Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with New 杏吧原创鈥檚 exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

Humans

Rite reasons: Why your brain loves pointless rituals

Logic and reason sets our species apart, but we are also born with a mind for nonsensical rituals 鈥� and they may be even more crucial for our survival

Features

Life

Adapt first, mutate later: Is evolution out of order?

Features

Humans

The time illusion: How your brain creates now

Features

Space

Mapping the Milky Way: What’s where in our galaxy

Features

Health

Forget the fads: The easy way to control your eating

Features

Environment

Talking gibbonish: Deciphering the banter of the apes

Features

Physics

Gravity’s secret: How relativity meets quantum physics

Features

Health

A date with disease: Get the app, risk the clap?

Features

Earth

Seven megaprojects that would change the world

Features

Environment

Wind riders: Amazing albatross flight inspires drones

Albatrosses fly fast for huge distances, barely flapping a wing. Can they teach聽us to build drones that will stay aloft for months or even years?

Features

Life

The search for ET: how close are we?

Features

Environment

Born to dance: The animals with natural rhythm

Features

Earth

Racing refraction: Who reached the North Pole first?

Features

Technology

Rhyme and reason: Writing poems in computer code

Features