Kathryn Hall, an expert on placebos, considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to them.
Kathryn T. Hall | Jan 12, 2023
Birds have an exceptional resistance to aging. Can scientists discover their secrets?
Steven N. Austad | Jan 5, 2023
Drawings and short essays offer an illuminating peek into the history of scientific thought.
Don S. Lemons | Jan 3, 2023
Educators should ask not who is curious, but how is each person curious?
Perry Zurn & Dani S. Bassett | Dec 27, 2022
If protolanguages began as largely gestural systems, why and how did vocalization become so important?
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny | Dec 24, 2022
Gardens have long been a source for care, comfort, creativity, and connection to others.
Robert Gottlieb | Dec 20, 2022
An excerpt from “Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators.”
Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta | Dec 14, 2022
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Keith Holyoak | Dec 7, 2022
On whiling away time before we have to be ourselves online again.
Tung-Hui Hu | Dec 1, 2022
In the early 1900s, when the memory of the famines was still fresh, western India became the stage for a powerful anti-caste movement that challenged socially sanctioned forms of deprivation.
Tirthankar Roy | Nov 21, 2022
