Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.
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The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
The same parts of the brain that help us navigate complex social interactions can also drive us to make wildly bad investments.
A new survey found that 27 percent of millennials are saving more money due to the pandemic, but most can’t stay within their budgets.
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?
It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
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Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Don’t let a crisis be wasted. Use this moment to find meaning, purpose, and to refocus on self-care that will improve your mindset and relationships.
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Milgram’s experiment is rightly famous, but does it show what we think it does?
The development of the revolutionary gene-engineering tool CRISPR is a tale fit for the big screen.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
Unless you plan to try again in 6,800 years, this week is your shot.
Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
What does it mean to “lead without authority”?
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There’s a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.
Let’s talk about swans. All swans are birds or, more specifically, waterfowl. They are large and sport long, slender necks. They migrate south for the winter, traveling in that eye-catching […]
How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.
It’s not the caffeine; it’s the people.
An elephant at the Bronx Zoo has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
The very concept of a “problem with no solution” goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.