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Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas

The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg explores the ethics of human specimen collections in Is a Biobank a Home?

Evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on the island could reshape our understanding of human settlement in the Mediterranean

Underwater, the mantas circled Evie, ready for a game. A work of fiction.

Tree-ring records suggest that drought played a role in Roman Britain’s decline

The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts

Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

Intimations of mortality are not ours alone

At most, its oceans may contain biomass equivalent to a small dog

New tech might help humans find others in need faster

For Schaus’ swallowtail butterflies, hurricanes mean clear skies and bright futures