Cognitive therapy identifies core beliefs. But how do you evaluate them? Plato offered a criterion sharper than "adaptive": ...

Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

It was a hundred years ago this November, and Albert Einstein was enjoying a rare moment of contentment. Days earlier, on November 25, 1915, he had taken to the stage at the Prussian Academy of ...

A paper on arXiv by researchers at the Icaro Lab in Italy has set off a firestorm of headlines. It begins with a reference to ...

Should we even bother sending our children to university these days? Certainly not to any arts departments, where the many ...

The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

While the pressure to create beautiful and aesthetic interfaces is enormous, is appearance really the most important thing?

Motherhood is also present in the Metamorphoses in more subtle ways. = Alison Sharrock, a professor of Latin, has pointed out ...

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth. But what was that thing ...