In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead ...

In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?

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Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind ...

We don’t always need new scientific discoveries to save lives and improve the world. Often, the knowledge is already there ...

When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more ...

Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain ...

In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy ...

A black hole rings like a struck bell, then settles into silence, forgetting almost everything about its history. Why?

On a sunny day in the summer of 2015, I found myself standing in the basement of an office building in Silicon Valley. The room was packed full of appliances, as if a commercial kitchen had been blown ...

The most iconic image of human evolution comes not from science, but from cinema. In the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), apes shuffle across a desolate, windswept ...