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For some, a night without sleep causes mood-boosting changes in the brain.

Why it's time for new ways of naming life.

The timbre of a violin or a sitar can affect how dissonant music sounds to us.

When a misplaced sense of familiarity gives rise to delusions of place.

Frans de Waal saw animal behavior with fresh eyes and forever enriched our understanding of primates.

A buried irony.

The visual systems of a group of mollusks reveal how future evolution depends on the past.

Practiced mostly by women, this fishing tradition is thousands of years old. Can it survive?

Forensics has reached the final frontier, and could be used to solve future space accidents—or crimes.

How tiny one-celled protists pull off their strange and marvelous feats.

A new “post-quantum” theory of gravity says we can wave dark matter and dark energy goodbye.

A tendency to reframe negative events may be embedded in our neurobiology.