The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

Laughing Off Your Mistakes Makes You Seem More Competent

Our dreams are our own — or are they? Meet the researchers behind the new science of TDI: targeted dream incubation

Doing Science and Philosophy On Drugs

AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots

Bombed Iran

Today in Supreme Court History: March 2, 2016

Justices Debate Substantive Due Process Again, This Time in Parental Rights / Gender Transition Concealment Case

S. Ct. Reinstates Trial Court Injunction Blocking Cal. Policy Limiting Schools' Disclosure to Parents of Student's Changed Gender Identity

Open Thread

The Rare-Earth Reckoning

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

Peru's Marxist President Changes His Mind, Doesn't Make Hernando de Soto Prime Minister

The Weight-Loss Drug Revolution—From Shots to Pills and the Science behind It All

January’s best science images

Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR (The Foundation for “Science and AI Research”)

Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

We need to talk about salaries in science

New Smart Underwear Unlocks the Serious Science of Human Flatulence