At a pretend tea party, a bonobo named Kanzi did something so unexpected that it’s reshaping how scientists think about imagination.

Nuclear policy experts, Joseph Rodgers and Doreen Horschig, offer three ways by which arms control can reform itself to manage strategic competition in a multipolar, post-New START world.

In a new research paper published in Science, cognitive scientists from Johns Hopkins University reported on a bonobo’s ...

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

Gene regulation is far more predictable than previously believed, scientists conclude after developing the deep learning ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes a look at the bad idea in housing policy that never seems to die: rent control. In Massachusetts, housing ...

Whenever people get anxious about affordability, populists offer up a deceptively simple solution: rent control. Yet capping prices is a textbook policy failure that leaves renters in every community ...

This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. Could Google crush the “portal wars” once and for all? A key Google partner is starting to display home listing details directly in search results, ...

THANKS TO A CACHE OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, the public is now well aware of the Central Intelligent Agency’s misadventures in mind control throughout the 1950s and 1960s. MKUltra—the agency’s ...

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Woolhandler and Himmelstein are both general internists, distinguished professors of public health at the City University of New York’s Hunter College, and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical ...