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In his most recent book, Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, Christof Koch wrote that he has known only one genius: Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. “In a lifetime of teaching, working and debating with some of the smartest people on the planet, I’ve encountered brilliance and high achievement, but […]

Imagine you are a bacterium, roughly 1/1,700,000 of your current size, residing in your own human body’s gut. You live in a diverse community, the “microbiome,” teeming with other bacteria: friendly neighbors who live next door, some ne’erdowells who occasionally vandalize the town, and your neighborhood cops who try to keep everything in check. The […]

Seven sports that come down to how well your neurons play.

Seven sports that come down to how well your neurons play.

Genetic engineering will one day create the smartest humans who have ever lived.

Adapting to the urban jungle has made Rocky smarter.

Digging through the world’s oldest graveyard with African paleontologists.

In Ethiopia, paleontologists are pushing back the clock on humanity’s origins.