A few qualities, including a sense of purpose, seem to have real benefits — especially as you age. A few qualities, including a sense of purpose, seem to have real benefits — especially as you age.

“Theater of the Mind,” a huge long-term gamble for Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is, in essence, a tour inside the skull of David Byrne. Or, as he puts it over dinner with me one night, “each room there ...

Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of the electric vehicle maker Rivian, has raised $500 million in a Series A funding round co-led by venture firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. The ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided to quote scripture to eulogize yet another U.S. soldier who died for no good reason in retaliatory strikes from Iran at his press conference Tuesday morning.

Some years ago, I had a colonoscopy without being fully anesthetized, and was able to watch on a computer screen the shifting views of the insides of my colon. I was both fascinated and disturbed.

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind blind”. The phrase suggests ...

Nike’s Mind 001 slides aren’t just another futuristic foam slip-on — they’re built for recovery, sensory feedback, and all-day comfort. After an instant sellout, here’s what makes them different and ...

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. "I'm not used to getting nasty emails from a holy man," says Professor Michael Levin, a developmental biologist at Tufts ...

A sharper, more resilient mind starts here. Monday Test Your Knowledge Tuesday MIND Your Diet Wednesday Try a New Workout Thursday Play a Game Welcome to Day 2 of the Brain Health Challenge. Today, we ...

Wharton’s Jonah Berger shares tactics for how to push even the most resistant people in new directions. Jonah Berger, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, says that most ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I like gadgets, and so, at times, my digital detox has verged on technophilic decadence. A few months ...