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Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab

What is neuroscience doing to art?

February 7, 2019

How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered

Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.

February 6, 2019

Understanding the Brain with the Help of Artificial Intelligence

Neurobiologists program a neural network for analyzing the brain’s wiring.

Why Evolution Reversed These Insects’ Sex Organs

Among these cave insects, the females evolved to have penises—twice. The reasons challenge common assumptions about sex.

January 31, 2019

What Impossible Meant to Feynman

Physicist Paul Steinhardt remembers a great mentor and scientist.

January 30, 2019

The Case for Professors of Stupidity

The greatest problem facing the world today is a rule system.

January 29, 2019

Paradox Is Illuminating the Black Hole

How reconciling opposites is driving the science of black holes forward.

January 28, 2019

Stable Perception in the Adult Brain

Neurons return to their original state after a change.

Gene Drives Reach Mammals

A new genetic technology that can quickly change entire populations gets broader.

January 23, 2019

How Nearby Stellar Explosions Could Have Killed Off Large Animals

A new study suggests that subatomic particles called muons streamed through the atmosphere and fatally irradiated megafauna like the monster shark megalodon.

January 23, 2019

How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time

Quantum mechanics rescued our understanding of past and future from the black hole.