An evolutionary biologist explains how human language can shift as slowly or rapidly as organisms adapting to life on Earth ...

Talking to teens reveals a hidden sophistication to their media use. Rather than policing it, maybe we could learn from it ...

A filmmaker’s tender depiction of his family shows his mother as a superhero, dedicated to caring for those around her ...

completed her PhD at the Paris Brain Institute. She now holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she continues to investigate the impact of sleep on creativity.

is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, US. He is the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018) and Marion ...

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is a cognitive neuroscientist studying socioemotional aspects of brain and behaviour in health and psychiatric conditions at the LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Germany. is an Assyriologist using corpus ...

In his brief animation The Bear in the Shower, the US artist and animator Tom Schroeder finds a bit of existential poetry in a peculiar, somewhat low-stakes crisis his wife encountered when she ...

is an assistant project scientist in the META (Memory Emotion Thought Awareness) lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work uses neurobiological and experimental approaches to ...

is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Time magazine named ‘The Protester’ its 2011 Person of the Year amid Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and anti-austerity protests in Europe. This was before the Gezi Park demonstrations in Turkey, ...