Bob Holmes

Bob Holmes

Bob Holmes | Knowable Magazine

Visitors exploring why people get lost in a large, complex wooden maze installation in an indoor gallery setting.
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
A character in a starfleet uniform with a distinctive ridged forehead, who speaks invented languages, stands against a backdrop of stars.
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.
Three young girls sitting on a bench and smiling.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
a group of men standing on top of a wooden structure.
Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.
a bat hanging upside down in a tree.
By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.