A preview of the latest novel by the National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson.

Scientists are notoriously resistant to new ideas. Are they falling prey to groupthink? Or are our current theories just that successful?

If you’ve gotten goosebumps when hearing a story about a stranger’s selfless heroism, or you’ve felt your chest swell at a concert, when the audience’s voice and the musician’s instruments align, you have felt awe. And, according to professor Dacher Keltner, who has spent his life studying it, it’s one of humankind’s most unifying traits:

“There would be something very, very empty and meaningless about [a] sort of life with no problems.”

From neuroscience to philosophy, experts reveal why compassion may be the most important human skill we have.

Physicist Daniel Whiteson challenges the notion that all intelligent species would eventually uncover the same laws of nature. Do you agree?

Reading classic books can teach you as much about the present as the past.