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Scientists Analyzed 24,000 Chess Matches to Understand Cognition

Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.

November 20, 2020

To Save the Ocean We Need Less Talk, More Action

After helping the world’s largest pension fund divest from fossil fuels, Nina Jensen tackles the ocean’s problems.

November 19, 2020

Scientists Find Vital Genes Evolving in Genome’s Junkyard

Even genes essential for life can be caught in an evolutionary arms race that forces them to change or be replaced.

November 19, 2020

The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung

How the theoretical physicist and analyst came together and then apart.

November 18, 2020

When Science Was the Best Show in America

The first US museum was devoted to truth and reason. Then the circus came to town.

November 18, 2020

Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang

The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

November 11, 2020

Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki

For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.

November 11, 2020