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According to feline researchers, cats often get maligned as aloof and even spiteful, when many of them are quite social and eager to interact.

The GQ staffers of 1995 called. They want their list back.

Researchers discovered that adaptive myelination, a form of brain plasticity, contributes to drug addiction.

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Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?

We are told "the old ones are the best ones" – and some of the oldest jokes in history are still in use today. It’s worth going back a few thousand years to find out why.

Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns

A Tribe Called Quest's 'Gerogie Porgie' displays homophobia at its most hateful. But does their first album in 18 years show they've grown?

The private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.

Get ready for an Avatar: The Last Airbender EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the creator of Avatar Aang himself, Bryan Konietzko! Find out how Bryan got started at N...

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As “Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials” argues, across seven centuries, women have been accused of witchcraft—but what that means often differs wildly, revealing the anxieties of each particular society, Rivka Galchen writes.

Spotify is the world’s biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17 percent of its workforce. Its business model looks increasingly precarious.

News broke this week that SoundCloud was looking to be bought. Even in the hands of different owners, its legacy—from Kehlani to “Old Town Road”—remains.

An exhibition at the Getty Villa Museum displays papyri and linen mummy wrappings in its examination of the elaborate narratives and incantations concerning life after death that developed in Egyptian culture.

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Spotify's Swedish cofounder and CEO has announced three rounds of layoffs this year so far.

10 Things Christians Get Hilariously Wrong About Jesus Let’s ask Bible scholars? Sometimes I listen to Christian pastors going on and on about their God who seems to be Hell-bent on punishing …

Scorsese’s latest film looks to the past, but misses the larger picture.