Empowering undergraduates to think critically about science in the media and society. A revolution is quietly unfolding in the field of evolutionary biology, challenging entrenched paradigms and ...

In a 2009 essay for Foreign Affairs called “America’s Edge,” Anne-Marie Slaughter argued that power in the 21st century would accrue ... It is as if I’ve taken a mind-altering drug that ...

A company in the US has patented what it calls a ‘brain fingerprinting technique’, which (to quote from their website) ‘can determine the truth regarding a crime, terrorist activities or terrorist ...

The moment we shift from "How do I do more?" to "How do I redefine what’s possible?" is when performance transforms. That’s ...

Photo: WATANABE Osamu, courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa In Japan, a 2.5-hour bullet train from Tokyo brings visitors to the country’s western coastline and the ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

A lot of useful information is only as helpful as its organization. The same goes for my own brain, of course. Getting that information in different formats can help with learning it, and Google ...

The detailed map of connections between nerve cells in the macaque claustrum and the rest of the brain could help us understand how this region and its different cell types play a role in ...