The ability to think abstractly that flourishes during daydreams also has important social benefits. Mostly, what we daydream about is each other, as the mind retrieves memories, contemplates "what if" scenarios, and thinks about how it should behave in the future.

n of photographs from CERN, showing various stages of completion of the LHC and several of its larger experiments (some over seven stories tall), over the past several years.

The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.

This week the London Aquarium unveiled the newest "species" to join its collection: robo-carp.

Visual working memory and forgetting stuff.

A person’s liking for a particular brand name is wired into a specific part of the brain, a new study reveals.

The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious.

The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray. Oh yes they are...

Paul Ford's excellent piece on Disctractions: "I want to feel like I did something during my brief life besides check my email."