🍑 Welcome to Butt Month. Every Tuesday in September, Massive will publish an article on the evolution, science, and technology surrounding the butt.

Mallory Wiper, Evolutionary Biology

September 24, 2020 9:34 AM

This extinct reptile was a righty, research shows

Like toads and cats, Captorhinus aguti seems to prefer its right side when munching

Can fitness bands predict COVID-19 infection before you show symptoms? Probably not

WHOOP's wearables make strong claims — but the science is still weak

Matthew Bomkamp, University of Florida

September 22, 2020

Anuses can have teeth, farts can be weapons, butts can be homes: an interview with a farts expert

Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

September 21, 2020

Scientists discover brain cells that remember where escape routes are

Samuel J Walker, Harvard Medical School

September 20, 2020

Volcano diplomacy and the future of eruption predictions: the life of a volcanologist

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

September 19, 2020

A proposal to use CRISPR to prevent opioid overdoses is a useless approach to healthcare

Nicholas McCarty, New York University

September 17, 2020

New evidence for the first life on land comes from an ancient microbial fingerprint

Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

September 15, 2020

Prescribed burns prevent megafires. Why don't we use them in California?

September 15, 2020

How safe is the DNA in your poop from unwanted snooping?

Jennifer Tsang, Microbiology

September 14, 2020

Why biological studies on queer people do more harm than good

Dori Grijseels, University of Sussex

September 13, 2020

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The Eclipse that made Einstein Famous
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Sir Arthur Eddington's observations of an eclipse in 1919 catapulted Einstein to fame
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This mysterious substance is accelerating the expansion of our Universe
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Join an Oxford cosmologist in an animated exploration of Dark Energy
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Naked mole rats and ant colonies have more in common than you think
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They both demonstrate something called 'swarm intelligence'
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Meet Grete Hermann, the philosopher of quantum physics
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She changed how we thought about truth not only in science, but in politics and ethics, too
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There's big gaps in our knowledge of black holes
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Watch astrophysicists Priyamvada Natarajan and Feryal Özel discuss the origins and behavior of black holes in our new animation

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