A Neuropsychologist Explains the Importance of Exercise in Fighting Dementia
Adopting certain lifestyle habits, including physical exercise, could significantly reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia
How an Octopus Can Squeeze into a Beer Can
Or not, depending on the species
Inside King Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 104 Years After Its Discovery
An unprecedented find in the Valley of Kings
Ancient DNA May Reveal the Surprising Roots of English and Other Germanic Languages
Iron Age people were on the move
Switching to This Healthier Version of Salt Could Save Around 3 Million Lives a Year
You can even make it at home
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The Evolutionary Arc From Pigeon Brains to Machine Consciousness
A conversation with comparative cognition researcher Edward Wasserman about learning and the “edge of chaos”
Oldest Evidence of Human Cannabis Use Has a Ghoulish Twist
Take a ride with the spectral cavalcade
How Your Body Clock Affects Your Mental Health and Ways to Keep It in Sync
Our internal body clock helps regulate sleep, alertness and mood, following a roughly 24-hour cycle influenced by light and darkness
Read Stories from Our Newest Print Issue: The Stupid Issue
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Are computers in mathematics rewriting the definitions of stupid and smart?
The Resistance Is Here
They didn’t plan to be activists. But scientists have united to overturn Trump’s drastic cuts to science.
The Return of a Discredited Pseudoscience
Eugenics is rearing its ugly head again in today’s crucible of politics and culture
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Astronomy
See more Astronomy7,500 Light-Years From Earth, A Cat’s Head Appears
A beautiful new NASA image of the Carina Nebula
A Collapsing Star Produced an Afterglow Brighter Than Its Galaxy
“The explosion packed roughly a billion years of the sun’s energy output into a pencil-thin beam”
“We Will Find a Graviton Before We Find Dark Matter”
A quantum information scientist on the hunt for the elemental mediator of gravity and why AI can’t solve physics problems creatively
History
See more HistoryThe Iron Age Queen Who Helped Bring Britain to its Knees
New scholarship reveals an exiled Roman client king was a woman
The Original X-Men
These intellectual superheroes revolutionized science in Britain and beyond by developing independent research
Psychology
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What Can We Learn About Happiness From the People Who Study It?
Happiness pioneers recently gathered to discuss the good life
Inside the Mind of a Narcissist
Their brains don’t sync the same way when it comes to processing empathy
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Environment
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Zoology
See more ZoologyChimps Can Be Thieves, But They Hesitate to Rob Their Friends
And their friends were quicker to forgive them for their thievery
Nearly 3 Million Eels Gather at an Underwater Mountain—But What For?
It’s the same ritual every year
Philosophy
See more PhilosophyThe Quest for Wisdom in Turbulent Times
A conversation with three Harvard professors about the practice of wisdom in everyday living
Could AI Have Consciousness That Isn’t Human-Like?
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith on AI consciousness and existential risk
What a Picture of a Dog Has to Do with Reason and Logic
People who can’t see images in their minds challenge an old philosophical standby
The Myth of Mommy Brain
A conversation with neuroscientist Susana Carmona, author of “A Mother’s Brain,” about how the brain changes in motherhood
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It’s also highly personal
Why Your Shrink Should Prescribe Exercise
A new viewpoint paper argues we’ve been thinking about physical activity the wrong way
Want to Use AI to Improve Your Work? Have It Disagree with You
Prompting an AI model to fight with your point of view can raise novel solutions
Tourist Posts a Photo to a Facebook Group, Accidentally Discovering 120-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint
Not your average vacation snap
The Monstrous Raptors That Threatened Our Ancestors
Did birds of prey shape human evolution?
Bizarre Fruit-Eating “Hell Chicken” Suggests Dinosaurs Played a Role in Flowering Plant Evolution
Its jaws were fruit-mashing machines
Listen to the Earliest Known Recordings of a Nearly Dead American Language
These “lost” recordings of the Creole language offer unique insights that written transcripts can’t provide
A Cross-Species Same-Sex Love Story
In Ethiopia, scientists documented repeated sex and bonding between a bull and a male donkey
