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Whales' ear plugs, ignored in museum collections for decades, contain a complete chemical history of the animals' lives—revealing stress hormones, toxins, and hormonal shifts in six-month intervals from birth to death.
The charisma we mistake for leadership capability may be indistinguishable from the grandiosity that derails organizations from within.
A famous psychology finding has been weaponized to mock incompetent people, but the researchers who discovered it say we've gotten the mechanism entirely wrong.
Two wealthy democracies have concluded that loneliness is now a public health crisis worthy of Cabinet-level attention, signaling a historic shift in how governments understand human connection.
Our intuitions about loneliness have it backwards: the young feel it most acutely, and understanding why upends everything we thought we knew about connection in modern life.
Our culture has it backwards: the person who breaks down at a funeral and the one who stays composed may both be processing loss in equally valid ways, and the stoic response isn't necessarily denial.
The quirks people roll their eyes at—fidgeting, swearing, endless doodling—might be markers of a sharper mind than conventional wisdom suggests.
A pharmaceutical empire worth half a trillion dollars cannot be bought, sold, or truly owned—and that structural oddity may be the only thing protecting it from becoming something far more dangerous.
A baby-prediction app takes two adult photographs, runs them through a generative model trained on faces, and returns what is, mechanically, a weighted composite nudged toward whatever its training data treats as a normal, healthy, appealing infant.
