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Surfers have dreamt it—now engineers are delivering.

What the existence of zombies would do to our philosophy of mind.

Funding, incentives, and skepticism of theory make some scientists play it safe.

Why isn’t India doing more to protect its rare evolutionary record?

We tend to be cooperative—unless we think too much.

The closest I ever got to flying with the birds was on the ground.

Ballooning life expectancies are upending age-old definitions of life stages.

The remarkable science that helped me understand what it means to be a physicist.

The science of bacteria in the atmosphere is getting its moment in the sun.

Our physiological processes become increasingly simple as we age.

The director of the Institute for Advanced Study on the wonders of his childhood attic.

A growing portion of the elderly look and act anything but.