Understanding how the brain works creates a road map to help you not just think differently but become differently.

Belief in the afterlife is rising among Americans, notably even among those who identify as religious “nones,” or individuals with no formal religious affiliation. An analysis of recent data indicates ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In secular countries, atheists display an intuitive preference for religious belief over atheism. This phenomenon was observed across eight countries with low ...

Beatrice Faust, the feminist who loved sex with men, who believed that not every rape was about power, that not all ...

The UK Supreme Court’s detailed, 88-page ruling strips away the entire façade of “identifying” as the opposite sex. Gender ...

Imagine standing on the sprawling plains of North America, watching a massive, shaggy beast graze peacefully. You might be ...

Following prolonged judicial debate, Britain’s Supreme Court last week ruled that, in legally precise terms, women are women and men are men. As such, under the UK’s Equality Act men cannot become ...

A team from the Max Planck Research Group for Systems Immunology at the University of Würzburg has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results, published in Science ...

A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the connections between brain biology and political beliefs. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

There is research that shows that, just like personality, intelligence, or morality, people also seem to hold different lay beliefs and mindsets about beauty—some believe that beauty is fixed ...