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Are You Yoda or Darth Vader?

How to recognize your light and dark sides.

August 26, 2020

These Images Expose the Dark Side of the Solar System

Explore the hidden drama of planets, comets, and space geysers.

August 26, 2020

Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking

A solution to the measurement problem, black hole paradox, and other quantum puzzles.

August 26, 2020

The Bias in the Machine

Why facial recognition has led to false arrests.

August 19, 2020

Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good

We are well advised to not lose track of evolution’s dark side.

August 19, 2020

Sex Is Driven by the Impetus to Change

Hooking up is nature’s way for a species to overcome a bad genomic match.

August 12, 2020

We Don’t Have to Despair

Medical research director Eric Topol sees light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.

August 12, 2020

How Life Could Continue to Evolve

On the origin of an interstellar species.

August 12, 2020

Your Romantic Ideals Don’t Predict Who Your Future Partner Will Be

Why birds of a feather don’t flock together for long.

August 5, 2020

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?

August 5, 2020

Gender Is What You Make of It

Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and the relationship that changed social science.

August 5, 2020