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Why Some Sports Fans Have More Fun

How mirror neurons affect the experience of fandom.

April 23, 2018

Another Side of Feynman

Nine letters by Freeman Dyson portray his relationship with the Nobel Laureate.

April 23, 2018

Bombers and Pterosaurs Were Both Before Their Time

The evolution of B-2s and lizards.

April 16, 2018

The Deep Time of Walden Pond

The science and history of the lake Thoreau made famous.

April 13, 2018

How My Nobel Dream Bit the Dust

My team thought we’d proved cosmological inflation. We were wrong.

April 13, 2018

Pick the Statistic You Want to Be

Understanding the odds lets you play with them.

Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?

How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI.

April 3, 2018

How the Fencing Reflex Connects Life and Death

Primitive reflexes shepherd us into this world, and out.

April 3, 2018

The Woman Redeemed by Trees

A story about connection by the National Book Award winner.

April 3, 2018

When the Heavens Stopped Being Perfect

The advent of the telescope punctured our ideals about the nighttime sky.

March 22, 2018

Social Inequality Leaves a Genetic Mark

When genetic structure follows social structure.

March 22, 2018

The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS

How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells.

March 20, 2018