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How Evolution Designed Your Fear

The universal grip of Stephen King’s personal terrors.

October 24, 2017

What Boredom Does to You

The science of the wandering mind.

October 23, 2017

Frankenstein in the Age of CRISPR-Cas9

Despite the awesome progress of science, we will never be free from the circular discussions of who we are.

October 19, 2017

Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own

A new version of AlphaGo needed no human instruction to figure out how to clobber the best Go player in the world—itself.

October 18, 2017

Why Dementia Is a Population-Level Problem

Malaz Boustani explains the current crisis.

October 16, 2017