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A narrative told from the cockpit of one of the world’s largest tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of the thorniest issues of our time. Published in the U.S. and Canada by Penguin Press, ...

Scientists in Switzerland have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a ...

Languages exhibit striking regularities in how meanings are mapped to word forms, yet analogous patterns at the subword level remain under-explored. This study fills the gap with a large-scale ...

A scientist’s account of switching focus to tackle pressing problems, and researchers consider the best way to preserve eggs, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.