Emotions expert Dacher Keltner, who advised director Pete Docter throughout the making of the new Pixar hit, dives deep into the science of emotion, and tells us how Inside Out could teach Western ...

As CEO of Intrade, John Delaney harnessed the wisdom of the crowds, with often freakishly prescient results. Technocratic dreamers were ecstatic about the company's ability to predict the future, and ...

Although research debunks white supremacists’ claims about lactose intolerance, race has long played a role in American milk-drinking. In December of 2016, three weeks after President Donald Trump’s ...

So Jones grew alarmed when, soon after starting at DePaul in the fall of 2007, at age 27, she began having trouble retaining things she had just read. She also struggled to memorize the new characters ...

Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century. In ...

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it? And if you do, how responsible are you for your actions?

Thomas Day just wanted to find a wife. He had tried all the usual ways—Day had been educated at Oxford and met plenty of eligible young women, sisters of his peers, including one to whom he became ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to ...

An interview with Charles C. Mann about the roots of modern environmentalism and the fate of the human species. Here’s the thing about successful species: Eventually, they all wipe themselves out.

For the first time in my life, I am not a racial minority when I move to Johns Creek, Georgia. People from myriad cultures, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities deem this patch of earth home.

Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine’s first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact, and the new movie. None of this hand-wringing is new: ...