Q&A — Human Factors specialist Ron McLeod
Who’s in charge? The fraught union of automation and human behavior As more and more tasks are done by machines — especially now, with AI — people increasingly move from…
Q&A — Computer scientist Iyad Rahwan
How will AI make moral decisions for you and me? There’s an urgent need to study how artificial intelligence makes ethical choices because it soon will make many such decisions…
Why we crave company
Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water By Elizabeth Preston. June 1, 2026 To our human eyes,…
Why we crave ‘comfort food’
Nostalgia plays a big role in the meals that bring us solace — which mean we might be able to recondition ourselves toward healthier foods that still soothe By: Debbie…
The troubling rise of family estrangement
As more adults cut off their parents, a researcher calls for closer scrutiny of causes and effects, and suggests paths to reconciliation By: Katherine Ellison 04.02.2026 Adult children vs. parents,…
Beating back the Aedes aegypti mosquito
Scientists are taking a multipronged approach to tackle this dangerous carrier of dengue, yellow fever and other noxious viruses By Katarina Zimmer 01.12.2026 Deep in northwestern Africa, a high-pitched hum…
Top science stories of 2025
In a year of funding chaos, ongoing climate change and pollution perils, we also saw the most powerful telescope yet, personalized gene therapy, and the next-best-thing to an HIV vaccine…
Top science stories of 2024
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine This record-setting year for heat saw stunning auroras, a map of a brain, a Dengue epidemic, the first look at rocks from…
Abracadabra! How magic can help us understand animal minds
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Authored by Betsy Mason By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think…