Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
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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?
Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.
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Better cognitive control over our decisions can stave off disappointment in our actions.
Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life’s biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
How could we fight Alzheimer’s with the body’s own immunity?
While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
To the ancient Greeks, exotic animals were proof of mythological creatures. To the ancient Romans, they were oddities and adversaries.
The results of a recent study found that genetically engineering cats could be a solution to eliminating cat allergies.
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”
How to say “I love you” in Basque, the “most loving” cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!
More than a third of Americans don’t get enough sleep. Diet is an important, under-recognized culprit.
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
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.
Morning, afternoon, or night: When is the best time to exercise? Scientists have extensively studied this question. Here’s what they found.
Fish are surprisingly good in numbers tests — a skill that sometimes makes the difference between life and death.
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
Understanding these links could bring us closer to a cure.
From Aristotle’s lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant’s “scientific” racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Acting “little and often” has huge consequences and they’re not always good — but awareness yields solutions.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
It’s the clitoris, stupid!
Just 12% of Americans account for half the country’s total beef consumption.
“Feedback is a gift,” is an easy bumper sticker to apply, but a harder philosophy to put into execution in your real life.
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.