Human Behaviour
Mind & Meaning
Psychology and the human experience under pressure. From the introvert who needs three days alone after a party to the astronaut managing isolation on the ISS — Mind & Meaning explores how people make sense of themselves and others, and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Human Behaviour
Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called early hunter-gatherer societies "the…
Earth & Life
Sam Altman asked what problem people most hope AI will solve
Space & Missions
The war in Ukraine has become the world's largest live test of autonomous drone…
Human Factors
Modern retirement was invented in 1889 by a 74-year-old German Chancellor named…
Human Factors
A researcher sees parallels between Dante’s Inferno and the geometry of planetary…
Science & Engineering
Apple just rolled out hearing tests on AirPods Pro and hypertension alerts on Apple…
Human Behaviour
Why are so many of us still awake at midnight watching something we don’t even care…
Human Behaviour
The Sumerians wrote down complaints, love letters, lullabies, and arguments about…
Earth & Life
Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and…
Human Factors
NASA's Curiosity rover has found organic molecules on Mars that may be billions of…
Human Factors
Interstellar's most-discussed scene is treated as exotic science fiction, but the…
Human Behaviour
Most people who say they want to be alone are not actually wanting solitude but a…
Human Factors
Nobody talks about why public enthusiasm for space collapsed at almost exactly the…
Psychology
People who are genuinely kind but feel virtually alone in the world have usually…
Psychology