Following excerpts adapted from the author’s book, The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, published by Macmillan Publishers Stout but not quite obese, and boasting a prominent belly, Yutala
During last month’s Super Bowl, a television advertisement showcased a simple blood test called Galleri, promising to detect early signs of more than 50 types of cancer or provide reassurance with an
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Summary: In this provocative essay, Martina Moneke argues that the scientific name Homo sapiens no longer reflects the reality of human behavior. Despite our intelligence, humanity has repeatedly demonstrated arrogance and ethical blindness—systematically misrepresenting
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Just months after its highly anticipated debut, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is already reshaping astronomers’ understanding of galaxy evolution. Its massive camera, the largest digital imaging device ever built,
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James Watson, the American biologist co-credited with discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, has died at the age of 97, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced Thursday. Watson spent much of his career
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by Eric In I Am a Part of Infinity, Kieran Fox does something that borders on the sacred—he resurrects the forgotten soul of one of the most revered minds in scientific history.
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by Satchi Timothy Caulfield’s The Certainty Illusion is a masterful, incendiary dissection of the modern knowledge crisis, a book that dares to claw at the bedrock of our cognitive complacency. With surgical
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s book, The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat, published by Macmillan Publishers Stout but not quite obese, and boasting a prominent belly, Yutala
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Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, a new study suggests. An international team of researchers examined
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Our species devotes a singular amount of time to an utterly unserious aspect of life: play. This begs the question: what is the adaptive value of horsing around? What possible evolutionary benefit
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The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times columnist Bob
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