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Talking to Jeremy DeSilva about human evolution was so fun. As was reading his recent book, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human....

The push by AIDS activists for an effective treatment was a breakthrough in the medical industry. It showed the power of a grassroots moveme...

Six weeks ago, a reporter, Nicholas Wade, published what seemed to be a blockbuster story, one that, if true, would expose the greatest scan...

Part of Dennis Plenker’s daily job is growing cancer. And a variety of different ones, too.Depending on the day and the project, different t...

It’s hard to argue with the famously authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, but its definition of physics as the “branch of science concer...

Quantum mechanics seems to have a problem with the order of time, which might signal the need for an entirely new type of law.Illustration b...

When I first posted on social media about my new book, Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad, some of my friends were confused. One commen...

One of my favorite albeit heavily paraphrased quotes from Albert Einstein is his assertion that the most incomprehensible thing about the un...

1 The “Dataome” Is HugeThe dataome is shorthand to describe all of the externalized information we generate in symbolic representations: dra...

Ultrasound can be a neuromodulator—to increase or decrease the likelihood that neurons will fire. Exactly how this works remains unclear, bu...

Orion, a SolarWinds product, was designed to monitor the users’ networks to make sure they were functioning properly and, ironically, kept s...

The boy was only a month old but had developed the amount of health problems that other people don’t acquire in a lifetime. He was constantl...

People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to be consc...

If you could soar high in the sky, as red kites often do in search of prey, and look down at the domain of all things known and yet to be kn...

So far no one has come up with any clear account of how a coronavirus escaped biosafety level 4 barriers. Photograph by MihasLi / Shuttersto...

The science you can come across today can often appear to be full of contradictory claims. One study tells you red wine is good for your hea...

Human-induced climate change may seem a purely modern phenomenon. Even in ancient Greece, however, people understood that human activities c...

Elaine Morgan had sass. In Descent of Woman, published in 1972, she asked her readers to take science into their own hands. “Try a bit of fi...

In 1777—after whipping local people for trivial offenses, spreading venereal disease, and clumsily avoiding a plot to kill him—the English e...

I can’t see them. Therefore they’re not real.” From which century was this quote drawn? Not a medieval one. The utterance emerged in Februar...

Footage of a mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to subvert the legal and peaceful transfer of power, filled many of us w...

When Ilya Metchnikoff was 8 and running around on his parents’ Panassovka estate in Little Russia, now Ukraine, he was making notes on the l...

A few years ago, Time magazine published an article titled, “Cell-Phone Distracted Parenting Can Have Long Term Consequences.”1 It reported...

In the 21st century, neuroscience has been able to extend our understanding of the brain beyond brain anatomy to an increasingly functional...

In the late afternoon of May 5, SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweeted, “Starship landing nominal!” Musk is not known for understatement. But seeing tha...