Understanding how we conceptualize time out of the complex present moment opens up possibilities for greater causal impact.

Julian “Jaz” Rignall has been playing games for nearly 50 years, and writing about them for most of those. The former ...

Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

When grief strikes, words may flood the page uncontrollably. Is hypergraphia a path to healing or a relentless force?

It wasn’t until the 1950 establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the largest funding source for basic ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Psychologists define meaning as the feeling that one’s life is significant, coherent, and purposeful, says Constantine Sedikides, a psychologist at the University of Southampton, in the U.K. And many ...

There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only then do we often realize that laughter is a rather strange ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...