Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities ...

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Retired computer scientist Tom Verhoeff first explored such problems in a workshop for a grade school math camp, where the ...

Claudia Metzler-Baddeley is a reader in cognitive neuroscience and applied brain imaging at Cardiff University in Wales ...

A posthumous award in medicine was given to the late Japanese physiologist Tokuji Unno for his landmark 1977 study on the ...

Experts say there is not enough evidence to support broadly screening men for testosterone without any symptoms ...

A researcher’s social media post revealing how to break part of a popular encryption protocol has gone viral. But did he ...

The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted ...

Austyn Gaffney is a climate and energy writer based in Louisville, Ky. She has written for The Atlantic, National Geographic and The New York Times.

The findings, which were made in mice, may offer a new way to prevent a common chemotherapy side effect that can last well beyond treatment ...

Tim Bayne is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.