Species adapt and evolve in strikingly similar or distinct ways. Uncover the different pathways between convergent and divergent evolution. The theory of evolution, worked out in the nineteenth ...

The relationship between intelligence and creativity has long been debated and studied. One of the hallmark tests of "general intelligence" is the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test. This test gives ...

In the fifth century B.C., the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea attempted to demonstrate that motion is only an illusion by proposing the following paradox: Achilles the warrior is in a footrace with a ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

Of all the young adult series that followed in the success of Twilight and The Hunger Games, Divergent seemed the best set to last the distance. Where other adaptations tried to set up future movies ...

We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...

It turns out humans aren’t the only ones checking out what their neighbors are doing when looking for ideas on how to make life easier. All species adapt and evolve in a variety of ways. In fact, ...

The relationship between intelligence and creativity has long been debated and studied. One of the hallmark tests of "general intelligence" is the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test. This test gives ...