Signs of symbolic behavior emerged at the dawn of our species 320,000 years ago.
Articles
A Wrinkle in Heaven
|Can the spiritual dimensions of reality be probed by science?
Conversations on Wisdom: Interview with Richard J. Davidson
|Davidson discusses how he came to studying meditation from a neuroscientific perspective.
Rising Spirituality in America
|The Pew Research Center’s Greg Smith and Duke’s Patty Van Cappellen discuss religion and spirituality.
Could Getting Messy Improve Your Creativity?
|Researchers have found that creativity is not simply something you are born with or without.
How to Store Time in a Quantum Superposition
|Approach could cut resources required for simulations of processes such as traffic flow and neuron firing.
The Theological Life of Pi
|The mind-boggling discoveries of computers and what we—and God?—still may never know.
How Much of ‘Us’ Is Really Us?
|Development of sheep-human embryos raises question of what it means to be uniquely human.
Adding Hope to Health Fears Could Boost Our Motivation
|Optimism might make us take more preventative actions, according to researchers.
Our Dreams Have Many Purposes
|The range of dream states are just as complex as waking states.