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This Month's Magazine Issue

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 21 - Do Animals Have Friends?

Do Other Animals Have Pets?

In This Issue

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Issue 46 - May 2026

COVER STORY: Do Other Animals Have Pets?

Humans love a fluffy (or scaly) companion, but are we the only ones?

DEEP DIVE: Can You Train Animals To Be Spies?

We investigate whether our furry friends can master the art of espionage.

WE HAVE QUESTIONS: What Is A Fossil?

Minerals? Bits of animal? Or something else?

WHERE ON EARTH: One Can Simply Walk Into Mordor

New Zealand’s newest volcano sits in a region famous in film and natural beauty.

EXCLUSIVE:

Meet author Professor Steve Brusatte and read an excerpt from his new book The Story Of Birds: An Evolutionary History of the Dinosaurs That Live Among Us.

PLUS:

News, diary dates, what to see, watch, and read this month, and much more.

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Previous Issues

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

How do we know that the Earth has a tilt?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Are we really more microbe than human?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Why do we need the dark?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Why do we cry?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

The science of magic

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

How do we predict the weather?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

What actually is fear?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Are space-made medicines the future?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Are there body parts you can live without?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

How to fake a fossil

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Are there colors that only exist in our brains?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Why do we love nostalgia?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Do animals make art?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Can we really trust our memories?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

The science of fever dreams

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Why do humans love watching fire?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Why is laughter contagious?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Will we all be eating insects in the future?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Why do we have phobias?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Should we all be journaling?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Do animals think?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Do we still live in an age of dinosaurs?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Can you think yourself well?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

What happens in a nuclear blast?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Do animals have friends?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 20 - Does technology help or harm grief?

Does technology help or harm grief?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 19 - Is Hypnosis Real?

Is hypnosis real?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 18 - What does the universe smell like?

What does the universe smell like?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 17 - Are no two snowflakes alike?

Are no two snowflakes alike?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 16 - Does IQ matter?

Does IQ matter?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 15 - How to spot a pseudoscience

How to spot a pseudoscience

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 14 - Can we learn to be happier?

Can we learn to be happier?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 13 - Is logic flawed

Is logic flawed

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 12 - The science of luck

The science of luck

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 11 - Should we all be meditating?

Should we all be meditating?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 10 - How to see impossible colors

How to see impossible colors

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 9 - Does everyone have an imagination?

Does everyone have an imagination?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 8 - How to beat a lie detector

How to beat a lie detector

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 7 - Why is nature full of patterns?

Why is nature full of patterns?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 6 - Why do humans keep inventing the supernatural?

Why do humans keep inventing the supernatural?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 5 - Dare we become transhuman?

Dare we become transhuman?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 4 - Is scorpion venom really the most expensive liquid in the world?

Is scorpion venom really the most expensive liquid in the world?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 3 - When does a theory become a fact?

When does a theory become a fact?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 2 - What happens to your digital footprint after you die?

What happens to your digital footprint after you die?

CURIOUS Magazine Issue 1 - How to talk to a conspiracy theorist

How to talk to a conspiracy theorist