How the brain builds your world of sound
In the 1970s, psychologist Diana Deutsch was experimenting with a synthesizer, when she heard something strange. “It seemed to me ...
Tag: Unexplainable
What humans might learn from nature’s real-life zombies
Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them.She’s ...
We’re hardwired for negativity. That doesn’t mean we’re doomed to it.
It’s not just the media’s bias — although, as I confessed to Unexplainable’s Meradith Hoddinott, that’s undeniably a part of ...
A wild project in Iceland could transform how we forecast volcanic eruptions
When you picture a volcano, what do you see? I personally imagine a mountain sticking up into the sky. At ...
Vox’s Unexplainable podcast expands to twice a week
More of Vox’s Unexplainable podcast is coming your way! Starting today, the award-winning show — which explores mysteries in science ...
Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
After Jennifer French, a young professional in consumer tech, fell down a ski slope and broke her spine in 1998, ...
The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?
There’s a thought experiment that has taken on almost mythic status among a certain group of technologists: If you build ...
Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart?
H.G. Wells is probably best known for his story about an alien invasion, “The War of the Worlds,” and some ...
Should we put pig organs in humans? We asked an ethicist.
In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart ...
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