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Last month, Harvard University named a new Chief Chaplain: Greg Epstein, an atheist. As reported in The New York Times,1 Epstein, the campus...

Let me tell you what it’s like to be an astrobiologist.I painted a white picket fence this summer. No one asked me to. It was a task I’d set...

Do you ever feel like someone is watching you? They could be. And I’m not talking about the odd neighbors at the end of your street.This sum...

If we medically insulate, or precipitously shield, emerging adults from introspection and struggle, from the work of figuring out life’s big...

Our General Resonance Theory of consciousness, a framework with a panpsychist foundation, may, at least in theory, provide more complete ans...

The following is adapted from a speech Roger Payne gave at this year’s Interspecies Internet conference. His remarks have been lightly edite...

The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air abo...

It’s been more than 50 years since biologist Roger Payne brought whale song into the lives of millions via the popular album, Songs of the H...

There are ways we get smarter with age, even in the domain of fluid intelligence.Photo Illustration by meboonstudio / ShutterstockMany have...

Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter of...

What is the role of reasonable doubt in advancing science? And how should we contrast scientific doubt with the cavilling doubt of conspirac...

I walked out of the airlock onto the blood-red Martian surface. My mind was crystal clear and laser focused. There was no room for panic or...

“Occasionally, when Ammu listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, a...

In high school, Daniel Stein built a solar-powered car and drove it across the country. “I got to see the possibility of doing something wit...

Science is not just something we do at school or professionals undertake in labs. It is at the heart of how everything works. With the devel...

What should you do if you are worried about your popularity? Relax. Despite what Facebook tells us, it’s the quality of friendships that cou...

When I was about 6, my mind did something wondrous, although it felt perfectly natural at the time. When I encountered the name of any day o...

Humans have always strived to develop technologies that give us some control, or at least the feelings of control, over the challenges that...

On March 11, 2021, the auction house Christie’s sold a work by an American graphic designer, Michael Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, for a coloss...

Requiring vaccine passports would not violate any individual rights that a well-ordered society would choose to defend.Photograph by FrankHH...

Last month, having returned to Earth aboard his Blue Origin spacecraft, Jeffrey Bezos, the chairman of Amazon and, as of this month, the ric...

The idea of cryogenically freezing a person to preserve their body until many years into the future has long been a staple of science-fictio...