It’s something like making a pact with the Devil. When we self-indulge, we obtain the object of our desire up front—whether it’s some glorious “high” (think cocaine, really good New York cheesecake, ...

Why We Develop an “Adapted” Self (and It’s Not Really a Choice) When we’re fresh out of the womb, we’re innocent. Not yet subject to powerful outside influences that inhibit the expression of our ...

A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, research appearing in the June 2022 issue of the journal Language, ...

Stulberg is author of the new book Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything is Changing – Including You, from which this essay is adapted If you want to learn something about change there is no ...

What if machines could not only learn but also teach themselves to think in ways that humans never imagined? This is no longer a hypothetical question—it’s the reality ushered in by the rise of ...

A new paper makes the case that elephants have evolved to become generally social and friendly all on their own, much like humans and bonobos. Reading time 3 minutes A group of scientists is making a ...

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...