Author: Roxana Scopa

Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching.

A woman walks in to the room. She is wearing a white dress and has a mole over her bright red lips. She could be anybody, but you might have instantly guessed she was Marilyn Monroe. For every famous person, there is a handful of traits that we use to recognize them. Caricaturists and comedians […]

Five unlikely breakthroughs in medical science today.

When the biggest problem with traffic is nothing at all.

Looking up to the sky, a young astronomer finds truths at her feet.

We tend to focus on major decisions as having momentous effects, but what if something as simple as a missed train could change the course of your life? And what if you follow two different paths to see which turned out better? That’s the premise of the 1998 film Sliding Doors, in which Gwyneth Paltrow stars […]

Don’t be so certain your senses are telling you the truth.

Empathy, morality, community, culture—apes can have it all!

Primatologist Frans de Waal takes exception with human exceptionalism.

Identifying the mechanics of emotions.