Arzan Khambatta has what he calls "fidgety hands". For as long as he can remember, the renowned sculptor has doodled on ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Aristotle lived between 384–322 BCE. A student of Plato, he wrote widely about philosophical ideas, from ethics and politics through to biology and the mind. His philosophy intersected with art ...

When Socrates also argued that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” he had in mind that there is objective truth (morally, politically and what we would now call scientifically), and ...

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