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My sister the scientist makes a startling discovery in an Ugandan jungle.

Why our minds can be led astray about the tastes of wines.

The sweet, avian romance of Harold and Maude.

From ecstasy to withdrawal, the lover resembles an addict.

Johnny Perez was 16-years old when he was arrested for gun possession and admitted to Riker’s Island. Within months, he did his first round of solitary confinement: 60 days in a 60 square-foot cell. The punishment was for fighting to use the telephone. Between the pushups, the jumping jacks, and the officers taunting him, the […]

maradon 333/Shutterstock How we think of time can lead to some odd results. For example, imagine your co-worker says next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved forward two days. When is the meeting going to be held? Your response can be predicted by how you see your relationship to time. If you see time flowing toward […]

Patrick Soon-Shiong is opening a new front in the war on the deadly disease.

A bit of education can erase a definitive cognitive gap between men and women.

A developmental disorder promises a new window onto the brain’s secrets.

Rommel Canlas/Shutterstock Edward Hall, an American anthropologist, first defined “personal space” in the mid-1900s, when he noticed that its size varied widely from culture to culture: Southern Europeans and Latin Americans, for example, were “closer talkers”, while Northern Europeans and North Americans were more stand-offish. Personal space, Hall surmised, was a form of social communication, […]