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Mind and Behavior
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
What can elite athletes teach you about how to win?
5mins
When should we seek justice, and when should we forgive? A bishop explains.
John Templeton Foundation
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.
Let's hope that squid don't evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
Unplugging only ignores the hard work of overcoming your distractions.
People tend to underestimate how much a friend they’ve lost contact with would enjoy a simple note saying "hi."
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
When it comes to vetting people for friendship, body odor seems to be a decisive factor.
4mins
New research shows that having an attitude of gratitude is key to healthy relationships, and it can virally impact society.
John Templeton Foundation
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon's private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
7mins
A neuroscientist explains how to master your focus.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
Just as there are many types of believers, there's not only one type of atheist.
John Templeton Foundation
Evolutionary psychology could explain those otherworldly feelings.
There are two conceptions of free will: "straight" and "mixed."
Lasers are all around you. This ubiquitous technology came from our understanding of quantum physics.
When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.
A new study shows that political partisans are more likely to remember things that didn't happen — as long as it fits their narrative.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous "trolley problem," saying that it "hurts too much."
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed "Baker-Miller Pink."
7mins
"Supernatural thinking is actually an important part of being a complete human being."
John Templeton Foundation