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Success in nature and culture depends just as much on timing as it does on brilliance.

One question for Maurizio Porfiri and Rayan Succar, dynamical systems engineers at New York University.

Miles below the ocean’s surface, should the old rules still apply?

In the age of self-experiment, scientists took mind-altering drugs to test the limits of subjectivity.

The nurse told him: You have malaria—the kind that kills you. So why wasn’t it killing the birds?

Our minds haven’t evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness.

One question for Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sun’s corona explain the vast flow of charged particles seen streaming out through the solar system.

What future missions to Saturn's moon Titan will reveal about the universe.

For billions of years, rivers connected continents to the sea. Then we came along.

Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.