Stories by dnetesn

Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table?

Our mental states overlap with and diverge from those of other species

Carl Sagan on Moving Beyond Us vs. Them

Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017)

Investigating the best features for predicting a movie's genre and budget

Butterfly Wonk Robert Pyle Pens His First Novel 44 Years in the Making

Crowdsourced archaeology shows human influence on Earth for thousands of years

Human Emotions Are Personal Narratives

Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes

Homo Narrativus and the Trouble with Fame

Bacteria feeding on Arctic algae blooms can seed clouds

Human Emotions Are Personal Narratives

Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels

The Tricky Problem with Other Minds

Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations

Math That Takes Newton into the Quantum World

Scientists harness bacteria to create 'living' liquid crystals

Humans Are Wired for Goodness

How the brain 'approximates' without counting

Daydreams Shape Our Sense of Self