Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explores the philosophical ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...

Why do so many turn to quantum physics to explain mystical experiences? This post explores how Quantum Field Theory has ...

As debates over science, meaning, and morality grow ever more polarized, a groundbreaking, accurate, and easy-to-read new book arriving in English invites readers to reconsider one of humanity’s most ...

Minnesota students’ science test scores dropped this year amid new science standards, according to the state Department of Education. Overall, 25.7% of students met or exceeded the new standards.

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Traditional views of human cognition often describe mental faculties as computations performed by the brain in isolation from bodily experiences. The mind and body separation implies that the focus of ...

What is a good life, and how can we create it? Forty-plus years of research has pointed to two answers. The first says that a good life is a happy life, one created by pursuing comfort, satisfaction ...

Imagine you decide to walk to the park. As you head out the front door, you take a left and walk for about a block. At that point, you realize it would’ve been a faster journey if you would’ve taken a ...

On an early October night in 1989, a four-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone call and a scream. She tiptoed barefoot on the clammy vinyl tile of the hallway. “He died in a car accident!” her ...