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Mind and Behavior
The separation of pleasure from procreation may occur throughout the cosmos, providing an explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?
Research suggests there's truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats.
The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life's decisions.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
Don't feel compelled to start a napping routine just yet.
Some 55 million light-years away lies the giant galaxy Messier 87. Its supermassive black hole, inside and out, looks better than ever.
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
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A dog's breed isn't as predictive of behavior as many think it is. Environment and upbringing play a much larger role.
Sophia, the humanoid robot, is not just mirroring emotions; she's leading a revolution in emotional intelligence.
John Templeton Foundation
Roosevelt had become president but not in the way he wanted. Still, he understood that he had been given the rare opportunity to make history.
If you want to write and speak well, use common words, not grandiose ones. Unless you're Shakespeare, you're more likely to annoy people.
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
Your brain is trying to show you the future.
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.
We all spend way too much time worrying what other people think of us — it’s time to cut loose.
Over the past two decades, the proportion of those who identify as bisexual increased from 1.2% to 4.5%.
There's an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
Neuroscientists think a cluster of cells in the brain that stimulate appetite could be a target for eating disorder therapies.
From smartphone envy to life dissatisfaction, the root cause of much unhappiness is that we are wired to imagine how things could be better.
We should acknowledge that there are faith-based myths running deep in science's canon.
Synchronized activity between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus plays a role in memory consolidation.
Michael Faraday's 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery of relativity. Einstein admitted it himself.
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.