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Love Is Biological Bribery

Evolution uses all its tricks to make sure we procreate. But love in humans is a many-splendored thing.

February 14, 2022

The Moon Is Underrated

New research hints at what makes Earth’s moon special.

February 14, 2022

Imaginary Numbers Are Reality

How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers.

February 9, 2022

How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality

The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

February 9, 2022

An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques

Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized.

February 9, 2022

My Dad Once Told Me the World Was 100 Years Old

His teasing provoked me to understand the origins of time.

February 8, 2022

Why We Should Explore the Hottest Places in the Ocean

Raquel Negrete-Aranda says studying the ocean’s “plumbing” can tell us a lot about life, both under and above the sea.

February 4, 2022

Novak Djokovic and the Healing Water Crystals

The story of the tennis star spotlights the pseudoscience that bedevils science and society.

February 4, 2022

What’s So Hard About Understanding Consciousness?

We brought Antonio Damasio and Anil Seth together to share their insights into neuroscience’s big question.

February 2, 2022

I Feel, Therefore I Am

Consciousness is a continuous conversation between the feeling body and the knowing mind.

February 2, 2022

Are Kids Ready for Virtual Reality?

Will too much time in the virtual world impact how children develop in the real one?

February 1, 2022

The Ocean Explorer Who Wants Us to Reconnect with Nature

High 5 to Barbara Veiga: activist, photographer, and filmmaker.

February 1, 2022