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Boxing is reputed to fight Parkinson’s Disease. I put on the gloves to find out.

Charles I’s neck bone, Queen Victoria’s armpit, and other fabulously gruesome medical tales.

Three computer scientists disprove a long-standing idea about imperfect information.

Meerkats are famous for their teamwork, but it’s enforced by a matriarch with an iron fist.

The value of anger, guilt, and future thinking for finding common ground.

An inventor, a bird, and a plan to connect all the minds in the world.

The author on writing her new book, “Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure.”

What we can learn from the macabre diets of a curious species of cichlids.

How historic records and new data uncovered the colossal underwater avalanche that unleashed a massive wave in 1650.

What the melting permafrost looks and sounds like to a scientist.

It’s females who vaulted biological hurdles and forged our evolutionary success.

You may think you scroll too much, but psychologists caution against calling it an addiction.