‘Hellraiser’ writer Clive Barker on the publishing industry’s homophobia
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser was based on his original novel, The Hellbound Heart, and told the story of a woman who starts to kill so that her brother-in-law, who had recently…
DOGE assigns staffers to work at NLRB
where it allegedly removed sensitive data
The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’
Scholars have sought to capture the elusive essence of the aha! moment for more than a century, and it is finally within our grasp. We now know where it happens…
Ancient Moon Melt Event May Explain 150-Million-Year Gap in Age Estimates
The moon may have melted 4.35 billion years ago—explaining a lunar age mystery
Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
Mercury is a common by-product of gold mining, a growing industry in several southern countries. The toxic metal accumulates as it moves up the food chain by binding with amino…
Nectar-Eating Wolves May Be Pollinating Flowers
There are fewer than 500 Ethiopian wolves, and they may be the first large carnivore known to act as a pollinator
The Unbelievable Slowness of Thinking
The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace…
The No-BS Protest Art of the Anti-Trump Marches
17,000 Children’s Shoes Line Pennsylvania Avenue in Moving Gaza Memorial
How Corals Fight Back against Warming Seas
Most corals can’t relocate, but they’re finding ways to beat the heat