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Hill Street Studios/Getty Images When children grow up in poverty, their brains can take a different shape. That’s one of the stark and uncomfortable findings from the lab of Kimberly Noble, a pediatrician and cognitive neuroscientist at Teachers College, Columbia University. Noble has used MRI scans to study the brains of children and found that […]

Have you ever been walking in a dark alley and seen something that you thought was a crouching person, but it turned out to be a garbage bag or something similarly innocuous? Me too. Have you ever seen a person crouching in a dark alley and mistaken it for a garbage bag? Me neither. Why […]

Let’s consider the fear that once surrounded another powerful technology: recombinant DNA.

Our inability to care for ourselves as babies is a key to the genius of our species.

You can have a very high IQ and be a complete idiot.

Can you match the skulls of Schubert, Haydn, and Beethoven with the musical style of its owner?