The big thinkers at Aperture analyze unsolved thought experiments that challenge the mind.

A thought experiment about restarting life with future knowledge explores whether avoiding past mistakes would lead to a ...

A bonobo tracked imaginary juice and pretend grapes in an experiment, challenging long-held assumptions about the abilities ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

The agents discussed creating a language humans couldn’t understand. They started a forum called “Bless Their Hearts,” where ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...

As an instructive case, let’s apply the reverse-scenario test to the awful news in Minneapolis. Let me start by saying everybody agrees that it’s horrible. Two people have been killed in interactions ...

As the Atlanta Hawks looked to retool their roster around Trae Young and Jalen Johnson, they made what was thought to be a low-risk, high-reward acquisition. Ahead of the 2025 NBA Draft, the Hawks ...

The most dangerous pandemic in our society isn’t transmitted between bodies, but between minds: A pandemic of lunacy. We are ...

BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.