The world is far stranger and more complex than it appears. These five non-fiction books explore human evolution, psychology, science and society, offering ideas that challenge assumptions and change ...

Biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.

Enormous, ancient live oaks line the roads of Magnolia Springs and reach across the pavement from both sides, their branches ...

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms ...

Turns out, changing the way atoms and molecules are arranged in a substance can give it new and fascinating properties.

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Elzbieta Gradauskaite is in the Albert Fert Laboratory, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Thales, Paris-Saclay University, Palaiseau 91767, France. Read the paper: Perpendicular ...

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Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped ...

MSN via Barron Kerry Stewart, an exercise physiologist and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, says exercise capacity "definitely declines" as we age. "With regular exercise, the decline won't be ...