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A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that the gut microbiome does more than aid digestion. It may also influence how ...

Black holes are some of the strangest and most powerful objects in the universe, and for all our advances in science, we still don’t fully understand them. They bend space and time, swallow light, and ...

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The authors are political scientists who study how democracies come to an end. How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...