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Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite

Think you can read people’s emotions? Think again.

Central Park Mice Don’t Get Out Much

The genetic stories of New York City rats and mice.

July 21, 2017

Gold Mining for Profit and Paleontology

How the Gold Rush and Fossil Rush came together.

July 21, 2017

As the World Collapses

An exclusive glimpse into Jeff VanderMeer’s new apocalyptic novel, “Borne.”

July 21, 2017

Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark

The father of information theory built a machine to game roulette, then abandoned it.

How to Hear Like a Champion Birder

Take a walk with the man building a Shazam for birds.

July 17, 2017

The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

Ingenious: Jack Gilbert

The professor of surgery explains how health emerges from a healthy microbiome.

July 10, 2017

How We Really Tamed the Dog

A daring experiment builds a new tame species in just 60 years.

How the Oil Pipeline Began

Pipeline fights have a longer history than you think.

June 30, 2017

Ingenious: Albert Camus

A reconstructed conversation with the great writer about science and the absurd.

June 29, 2017