Freud’s most implacable modern critic recounts the flaws of psychoanalysis and its founder and deplores their persistent influence | Continue reading
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A journalist recounts the epic story of modern challenges to evolutionary dogma. | Continue reading
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Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary | Continue reading
The recent, premature death of director John Singleton is a tragic case in point | Continue reading
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Communities can take it on themselves—and they must | Continue reading
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Scientists are resurrecting a long-neglected century-old prediction about how biology began | Continue reading
The U.S. needs to widen its consideration of critical materials past a limited understanding of security in a deeply interconnected world | Continue reading
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Because you know it has to be when you write 400 words explaining it | Continue reading
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Philosopher Christian List argues against reductionism and determinism in accounts of the mind. | Continue reading
Gary Urton explains what we can and cannot know about Inka khipus | Continue reading
One has to go to great lengths to counteract the deeply ingrained tendency to infuse new social groups with rich meaning. | Continue reading
How one organization is powering a generation of women in technology | Continue reading
We must change the attitudes, practices and policies that disadvantage some racial and ethnic populations | Continue reading
His far-reaching intellect and idiosyncratic personality ensured that interacting him was an exercise in complexity | Continue reading
Conventional ideas about what makes America safe have become dangerously obsolete | Continue reading
Just because you value neurological differences doesn't mean you're denying the reality of disabilities | Continue reading
His proposal, despite some dubious rhetoric, offers ideas that can advance the conversation | Continue reading
In New York in the early 1900s, race and poverty intersected to help determine whose cadavers ended up on med students’ dissecting tables | Continue reading
Extreme hot temperatures will kill thousands in major U.S. cities unless new policies manage to limit warming | Continue reading
We need to create learning laboratories, where researchers interact directly with patients | Continue reading
The "tragedy of the commons" is only one of them | Continue reading
A new idea in the quest to find life beyond Earth | Continue reading
It’s a mélange of chemistry, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, flavored with a big dollop of regional pride | Continue reading
A spate of “scientific” assays invented in the 1920s and 1930s were bogus—but they tell us a lot about the role of genetics in society, both then and now | Continue reading
Birds are living dinosaurs, but can they help us understand how their extinct relatives moved? | Continue reading
Probably not, but forthcoming commercial satellite constellations herald a new era for our night skies | Continue reading
Information graphics demystify Earth’s most powerful storms | Continue reading
Not all magnitude 8 earthquakes are created equal. Find out what separates merely devastating from completely catastrophic. | Continue reading
A new study offers a surprising look at what happened when fishy fins evolved into arms and legs | Continue reading
But improvements in climate models can lead to better fire forecasts | Continue reading
Newly revealed evidence suggests that putting people into positions of absolute control over others doesn’t necessarily lead to cruelty by itself | Continue reading
A response to criticism of a recent proposal to adopting gender-neutral language universally | Continue reading
We need to invest in companies with approaches that are scalable and replicable | Continue reading
For some species, it’s a threat, but for others, it’s essential | Continue reading
That’s more than any administration since the Union of Concerned Scientists started tracking | Continue reading
It produces better patient outcomes. Here’s why it works and how it can be effectively deployed | Continue reading
Astronomical and cosmological questions get an airing in India’s Sikkim province in a program started 20 years ago by the Dalai Lama | Continue reading
Observations by Arthur Eddington vindicated the theory—even though his nation and Einstein’s had barely stopped pummeling each other in World War I | Continue reading
If we want to eat sustainably, aquaculture has to be part of the conversation | Continue reading