Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Audio Timeline Slider: Use the left or right arrow keys to decrease or increase the slider value. Developed in 2015 by researchers studying the effects of diet on brain function and cognitive decline, ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

AI is ultimately a story about selfhood—and the answer will not be found in the machine, but in what mindful awareness allows ...