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Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions.

The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.

Oxygen isn’t strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.

The legendary investor explains the transformative Objectives and Key Results goal-setting framework with an imaginary Super Bowl strategy.

There could be variables beyond the ones we’ve identified and know how to measure. But they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness.

Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.

You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.

Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?

A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.

One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.

There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.

The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.

Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.

This is your brain on work.

If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.

These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.

“Human connection is as threatened by unhealthy peace as it is by unhealthy conflict.” —Priya Parker

Is “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.

Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.

Though difficult to watch, films like “Shoah” and “Life of Crime” cover topics that should not be ignored.

He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.

Quantum mechanics forces us to toss out the old, reliable ways in which we make sense of our everyday reality.

When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think.

Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.

The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.

If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.