How the brain gets wired up matters. Consider the neurons involved in the sense of smell. Hook them up wrong, and suddenly turpentine might smell like a lovely chianti. Yet how our developing brains ...

Although we can’t feel it, our universe is in constant motion: the earth spins on its axis at about 1,600 kilometers per hour (1,000 mph) and it orbits around the sun at about 100,000 km/h (67,000 mph ...

When two objects repel each other under the action of one force, we usually expect that addition of another force, also repulsive one, will accelerate separation. This intuitive view is, however, not ...