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A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.

A small study suggests that IMST is as effective as medications or 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.

Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.

Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.

Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.

How much can something change and still be the same thing?

When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as "analysis paralysis." Why? Isn't choice a good thing?

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.

Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.

Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.

This is a perversion of justice.

Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.

Frank Herbert's "Dune" refers to a religious desert people who are desperate for a savior to overthrow an evil empire. Sound familiar?

Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?

How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?

Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.

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Nikolaas Tinbergen's concept of "supernormal stimulus" explains why humans are attracted to a heightened version of reality.

Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.

Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.

It's hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?

The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein's mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here's why it had to be there.

How can we learn from the lessons of the past and build a better future?

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.

By not taking emergency action to combat climate change, we're gambling dangerously with the future.

With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.