Mental Health
Cypher's Choice: Painful Reality or Pleasant Delusion?
The care of people with dementia poses an agonizing philosophical dilemma
Stories by John Horgan
Fitness
A Former Java Junkie Ponders Coffee's Upside
After a science writer kicks caffeine to reduce his anxiety, a wellness expert assures him that coffee is good for you...
Policy
Visions of a Better World
Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Martin Rees and others answer the question: What’s your utopia?...
Cognition
Can Art Solve the Hard Problem?
A play dramatizes the deepest of all mysteries, the mind–body problem
Climate Change
Dark Days
A science writer struggles to stay upbeat in a troubled time
Space & Physics
Facing the End of Science
Physicists and others confront science’s limits
Space & Physics
The Twilight of Science's High Priests
Books by physics titans Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees recall a bygone golden age, when science seemed capable of anything
Behavior
Don’t Make Me One with Everything
The mystical doctrine of oneness has creepy implications
Policy
Noam Chomsky Calls Trump and Republican Allies "Criminally Insane"
The great linguist and political critic remains hopeful that we can overcome global warming and other threats
Space & Physics
Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Philosopher Tim Maudlin sees advances in free will, morality and the meaning of quantum mechanics
Culture
Beauty Does Not Equal Truth, in Physics or Elsewhere
Truth can be ugly, and beauty can lead us astray
Computing
Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers
Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting the tech-industry's enabling of U.S. militarism
Space & Physics
Chasing the Quantum Tantra
Hippy physicist Nick Herbert pursues a lifelong love affair with nature
Behavior
Why the Mind–Body Problem Can't Have a Single, Objective Solution
We cannot escape our subjectivity when we try to solve the riddle of ourselves
Behavior
Oneness, Weirdness and Alienation
A new book about psychedelics conveys their subversive, estranging weirdness
Fitness
Kicking My Caffeine Addiction
A science writer and java junkie struggles to stop abusing the world’s most popular drug
Cognition
Mind–Body Problems: My Meta-Solution to the Mystery of Who We Really Are
The author of a new book about consciousness, free will and the meaning of life conducts a testy interview with himself
Policy
The Paradox of Karl Popper
The great philosopher, renowned for his ferocious attacks on scientific and political dogmatism, could be quite dogmatic
Culture
Why STEM Students Need Humanities Courses
The more science and technology dominate our culture, the more we need the humanities
Behavior
Buddhism, the Good and the Bad
A science writer, in the afterglow of a one-week silent retreat, still has lingering doubts about Buddhism
