Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.