The Dangerous Evolution of the Coronavirus

Scientists Analyzed 24,000 Chess Matches to Understand Cognition

Why America Is Ripe for Election Conspiracy Theorizing

Australia’s Secret Rescue of Ancient Trees Offers an Insight Into Evolution

Doc Holliday Is Dead But Tuberculosis Is Still Killing Us

The Strange Physics of How Babies Talk

Think You Know the Definition of a Black Hole? Think Again

The Dr. Strange of the American Revolution

Game of Thrones and the Evolutionary Significance of Storytelling

A Precursor Piece to DNA Was Found in Star Material

When the Link Between Space and Time Will Be Intuitive

The Case for Professors of Stupidity

How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science

So Can We Terraform Mars or Not?

The Heart of Musical Experience Is Expectation

Forget Everything You Think You Know About Time

Bo Burnham and the Illusion of Meritocracy

Taking Another Person’s Perspective Doesn’t Help You Understand Them

Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations

The Psychological Challenges of Just Getting to Mars

This Famous Aging Researcher Doesn’t Want Us to Live Forever

Why Water Is Weird

The Case Against Lectures

The Self Is Other People

The Problem with Mindfulness

Can PTSD Be Good for You?

Make Concrete Roman Again!

The Pernicious Myth of Willpower

How to Weed Creationism Out of Schools

What Trump’s Simplified Language Means

The Case for More Intellectual Humility

How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?

Science Is Not Constantly Being Proved Right

Why Christopher Hitchens Was a Hero to Scientists

This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something

There May Be Two Trillion Other Galaxies

Yes, Your Brain Does Process Information

The Secret of Our Evolutionary Success Is Faith

The Hidden Warning of Fall Colors

Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max”

The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are

Your Brain Can’t Handle the Moon

We Are a Part of Infinity: A neuroscientist uncovers Albert Einstein’s little known spiritual journey — with Kieran Fox

Why Our Brains Crave Ideology: A neuroscientist reveals how to nurture authentic and flexible thinking — with Leor Zmigrod

The Race to Colonize Mars Perpetuates a Dangerous Religion: We can learn about the universe without conquering it — with Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Life Is Hard. And That’s Good: When the going gets tough, the tough get philosophical — with Kieran Setiya

Are We Ready for the Next Massive Volcano?: It’s time to get prepared, argues a professor of volcanology — with Mike Cassidy

Overthrowing the Patriarchy Through Ecstatic Sex: Zoologist Lucy Cooke uncovers the sexual power of females in the animal world — with Lucy Cooke

Thinking Like a Scientist Will Make You Happier: Physicist Jim Al-Khalili explains how to get out from under the cloud of misinformation — with Jim Al-Khalili

Robots Show Us Who We Are: What can we learn from machines with imagination and culture? — with Alan Winfield

The Real Impact of Meteorites on Earth: Life as we know it was seeded by rocks from outer space — with Greg Brennecka

Love Is Biological Bribery: Evolution uses all its tricks to make sure we procreate. But love in humans is a many-splendored thing — with Anna Machin

NASA Is on the Cusp of a New Era: A planetary scientist explains why SpaceX’s Starship will transform her field — with Jennifer Heldmann

Steven Pinker Has His Reasons: The psychologist unpacks rationality and denies being a guru to the capitalist elite — with Steven Pinker

The Brave New World of Chemical Romance: How love drugs will shape the future of our relationships — with Brian Earp

A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything: Karl Friston takes us on a safari of his free-energy principle — with Karl Friston

The Cultural Distances Between Us: Mapping the world’s psychological traits — with Michael Muthukrishna

How Inequality Imperils Cooperation: A game theorist breaks down the effects of inequality — with Christian Hilbe