Society

Apps and to-do lists aren’t enough: What the making of Frozen can teach us about productivity

From picking mates to choosing politicians, new research says society’s bias toward attractiveness has ugly results

More scientists are coming around to GMO safety. Why are environmentalists, who preach the science of climate change, not listening?

Inside the heroic, expensive and bizarre effort to raise twin pandas

A pioneering physicist, Brooks wrote that a woman ’has the right to the practice of her profession’

He was a natural performer with an ear for music and jokes. When tragedy or trouble struck, he would turn to the stage.

When he invented email, Ray Tomlinson also transformed the @ sign from 1,500-year-old typographic relic into the workhorse of Internet communications

We’re safer, richer, healthier—and more miserable—than ever before. What new research reveals about happiness. And how to find it.

This book explores what humans have won, and lost, with the decline of polygamy

Michal Schwartz, who pioneered the field of neuroimmunology, makes links between immune-system health and Alzheimer’s