Science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe.

Programming luck involves a lot of rule-bending and mind-manipulation.

Exploring the blurred line between biology and sentiment.

How a father and son solved the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise.

“It’s just beyond our experience—we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and grasp the remoteness of those odds.”

On the unexpected longevity of a very strange theory.

Identical twins in Pennsylvania have the same genes, the same upbringing, similar adult lives. And yet one crucial difference may have made one of them sick.

Walter Pitts, who helped develop the “first mechanistic theory of the mind,” was so brilliant he was once been invited to study with Bertrand Russell. He was also homeless.

Climate change is giving rise to intermating between previously distinct species. Welcome to a world with “grolar bears.”

Space is only getting weirder.

What neuroscience is learning from code-breakers and thieves.

On artists using their bodies to blur the line between human and machine.