The multiverse theory states that our universe just got lucky. But new research calls that luck into question.
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Paranormal Activity: A Personal Story
|Some things in life just can’t be explained. And that’s okay.
Why Is Your Preschooler Not Sharing?
|New research suggests young children want to share—but they don’t yet understand how much they have.
Complexity Is Beautiful Too
|Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.
Why Things Never Seem to Get Better
|Part of it is due to a common psychological phenomenon called “prevalence-induced concept change.”
Did Our Ancestors Sleep in Trees?
|That’s only one question posed by a new analysis of an extraordinary Australopithecus skeleton.
Does Rhythm = Cooperation?
|Not necessarily, according to the results of a new study.
Making Sense of It All
|A variety of brain functions may depend on comparisons between actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.
The Religious Mind Is in the Heart
|Clay Routledge on his upcoming book on motivation and supernatural belief.
Out of Africa
|Our ancestors may have left Africa hundreds of thousands of years earlier than thought.