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A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, matter can escape the center of the Earth.

Rights for cetaceans are not enough. They also deserve representation.

What’s the price of a sacred plant?

Harry’s psychotic delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

Photos from the Mütter Museum’s newly searchable collection.

Watch how hundreds of thousands of bats choreograph jam-packed nightly migrations with surprising grace.

Chemicals of decomposition are also starting points of life.

Orchids were Darwin’s “abominable mystery.” They continue to elude science—and efforts to save them.

“Theory of Mind,” meet Henry James.

Photographs taken from before terrorists destroyed the site are helping researchers digitally resurrect it.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t all garbage. It’s also an ecosystem.