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Casual Sex May Be Improving America’s Marriages

One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered.

March 2, 2015

How to Turn Your Dog Off

Suspended animation is becoming a life-saving medical procedure.

March 2, 2015

How to Turn Your Dog Off

Suspended animation is becoming a life-saving medical procedure.

March 2, 2015

Why Egg Freezing Is an Impossible Choice

I don’t want to surrender to a lottery. But will I regret not playing?

March 2, 2015

Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes

The high speed of society has jammed your internal clock.

March 2, 2015

The Thrill of Defeat

What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped.

February 23, 2015

Did Grief Give Him Parkinson’s?

These identical twins led virtually identical lives—with one tragic exception.

February 23, 2015

Is Your Theory of Everything Pure Enough?

Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.

January 29, 2015

Is Your Theory of Everything Pure Enough?

Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.

January 29, 2015

Nostalgia Just Became a Law of Nature

New theories have mixed perception and knowledge into the hardest of sciences.

January 29, 2015

Moore’s Law Is About to Get Weird

Never mind tablet computers. Wait till you see bubbles and slime mold.

January 29, 2015

How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised.

January 29, 2015