Kristen French
The World’s Tiniest Wave Tank
This ocean on a chip unlocks the mysteries of rogue waves, tsunamis, and other aquatic oddities
This Inca Building was the Original Boom Box
A 600-year-old temple was likely designed to amplify drum beats and music
How Scavenging Made Us Human
Our early ancestors were more like vultures than we might like to think
Your Chatbot “Friend” Is Only Pretending to Like You
ChatGPT and Claude can’t offer real empathy
Remembering the Genius Who Inspired Celebration of the Mind Day
Martin Gardner wanted to make math mathemagical
Daydream Your Way to Life-Changing Insights
Certain kinds of mind wandering can lead to powerful epiphanies
Extraterrestrials are People, Too
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?
Rogue Wave Mystery Solved
Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it
Why This 17-Year-Old Girl Can’t Forget
Some people have extraordinary powers of mental time travel
How Phantom Limb Tricks Us
New maps of the brain may explain why amputees feel pain in the void
