The brain is complex; in humans it consists of about 100 billion neurons, making on the order of 100 trillion connections. It is often… | Continue reading
When Ernest Sternglass walked up the steps at 112 Mercer Street in April 1947, he knew it would not be a normal day. Like a church… | Continue reading
The modern quest for Promethean fire is underway in an anonymous office park in Foothill Ranch, California, an hour southeast of Los… | Continue reading
The brain is complex; in humans it consists of about 100 billion neurons, making on the order of 100 trillion connections. It is often… | Continue reading
When Ernest Sternglass walked up the steps at 112 Mercer Street in April 1947, he knew it would not be a normal day. Like a church… | Continue reading
In the bowels of an animal research facility at Oxford University, mice are stirring in cages. Half of them have been given an injection… | Continue reading
Science can be a peculiar source of joy—the joy, largely unique to human beings, of understanding the universe in which we live.… | Continue reading
Science can be a peculiar source of joy—the joy, largely unique to human beings, of understanding the universe in which we live.… | Continue reading
I’m young and perfectly healthy, but I’m waiting for the day when I finally get sick. While many of us are locked down in our… | Continue reading
Sweden did not set out to kill thousands of its older citizens. Nor did any country as COVID-19 swept across the globe. But Sweden’s… | Continue reading
In the bowels of an animal research facility at Oxford University, mice are stirring in cages. Half of them have been given an injection… | Continue reading
Sweden did not set out to kill thousands of its older citizens. Nor did any country as COVID-19 swept across the globe. But Sweden’s… | Continue reading
Science can be a peculiar source of joy—the joy, largely unique to human beings, of understanding the universe in which we live.… | Continue reading
I’m young and perfectly healthy, but I’m waiting for the day when I finally get sick. While many of us are locked down in our… | Continue reading
In the bowels of an animal research facility at Oxford University, mice are stirring in cages. Half of them have been given an injection… | Continue reading
Xu Jiao was anxious to get back in the gym. Living in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, she had gone through two… | Continue reading
The shelter-in-place orders and the massive drop in human activity in our cities, designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, have given… | Continue reading
Xu Jiao was anxious to get back in the gym. Living in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, she had gone through two… | Continue reading
Things have been different at the Tumwater Family Practice Clinic since COVID-19 came. Its patients in Washington state are being… | Continue reading
The shelter-in-place orders and the massive drop in human activity in our cities, designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, have given… | Continue reading
Even after you understand how an illusion operates, it continues to fool part of your mind. This is the kind of double knowledge we… | Continue reading
If there is one thing that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed, it is that there is much that we still don’t know about the world… | Continue reading
We all want to get back to our lives—go out for a drink, see a movie, hug our parents and grandparents, and bring our cities back… | Continue reading
Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration… | Continue reading
Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration… | Continue reading
At first glance, a tree could not be more different from the caterpillars that eat its leaves, the mushrooms sprouting from its bark,… | Continue reading
The two men in the coach were both 28 years old, born within a few months of each other in 1571. Frederik was Danish and Johannes… | Continue reading
Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration… | Continue reading
The two men in the coach were both 28 years old, born within a few months of each other in 1571. Frederik was Danish and Johannes… | Continue reading
We all want to get back to our lives—go out for a drink, see a movie, hug our parents and grandparents, and bring our cities back… | Continue reading
We called Greg Carr the other day to talk about the spread of the coronavirus in Africa. Carr, who has been featured in Nautilus,… | Continue reading
If there is one thing that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed, it is that there is much that we still don’t know about the world… | Continue reading
George Chapline believes that the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that black holes are really dark energy stars. NASAWhat… | Continue reading
While a doctoral student at Princeton University in 1957, studying under a founder of theoretical computer science, Raymond Smullyan… | Continue reading
Abraham Ortelius, with his comprehensive atlas, gave us not disenchantment, but a differing enchantment—a sense of the sheer magnitude… | Continue reading
Adam Magyar’s gone viral. His recent series Stainless, in which video recordings of subway platforms are played out in super-slow-motion,… | Continue reading
There’s an old belief that truth will always overcome error. Alas, history tells us something different. Without someone to fight… | Continue reading
The officials deciding what to open, and when, seldom offer thoughtful rationales. Clearly, risk communication about COVID-19 is… | Continue reading
You probably know my robot. I’ve been inventing autonomous machines for over 30 years and one of them, Roomba from iRobot, is quite… | Continue reading
The officials deciding what to open, and when, seldom offer thoughtful rationales. Clearly, risk communication about COVID-19 is failing… | Continue reading
You probably know my robot. I’ve been inventing autonomous machines for over 30 years and one of them, Roomba from iRobot, is quite… | Continue reading
There’s an old belief that truth will always overcome error. Alas, history tells us something different. Without someone to fight… | Continue reading
The coronavirus news from Mozambique is mixed, as it is in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Many experts fear chaos is inevitable.Photograph… | Continue reading
In the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous models are being used to predict the future. But as helpful as they are, they cannot make sense… | Continue reading
A lithograph of the massive 1883 eruption of KrakatoaThe eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena, 1888; Parker & Coward;… | Continue reading
What is this pandemic doing to our minds? Polls repeatedly show it’s having an adverse effect on our mental health. Physical distancing,… | Continue reading
Plants are intelligent beings with profound wisdom to impart—if only we know how to listen. And Monica Gagliano knows how to listen.… | Continue reading
Plants are intelligent beings with profound wisdom to impart—if only we know how to listen. And Monica Gagliano knows how to listen.… | Continue reading