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TikTok: Is Your Morality Really as Flexible as Your Imagination Will Allow?

In this TikTok, a Neuroscientist Asks How Mindbending Morality Can Be

By Ben Rein

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Moral Imagination

We constantly adjust our moral values based on our ideas about the world. That can be a tool for kindness, cruelty—or survival on the streets of Baltimore.

By D. Watkins

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Anti-Trans Myths

How a political movement manufactured scientific misinformation and legitimized hate.

By Simón(e) D. Sun and Florence Ashley

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The Same Sky, Differently

An astronomer finds common ground with an astrology buff, as both search for meaning in the complex motions of the heavens.

By Trisha Muro

Deceptions

Not in Your Head

Doctors sometimes dismiss physically sick patients with psychiatric diagnoses, entering errors into medical records that impede real treatment for years. Here’s how to protect yourself.

By Julie Rehmeyer

Culture

Colonizing Art

The euphoria surrounding generative AI often ignores ethics and rights, especially when it comes to artists whose work may be lifted for free and altered without consent.

By Payal Dhar

Explainer

Cultural Synesthesia

An intermingling of the senses creates not just a different way of perceiving the world, but a window into your past, like psychological amber.

By Meera Khare (the synesthete) and Apoorva Bhandari (the neuroscientist)

Deceptions

Weaponized Empathy

The impulse to look out for other people can be hijacked to spread confusion and misinformation.

By JoBeth McDaniel

Controversies

The Extra Deaths

#DiedSuddenly has been a trending hashtag, and the United States lists 400,000 Covid-era fatalities not formally attributed to the virus itself. Do the numbers add up?

By Jill Neimark

Culture

Science for Peace

In tumultuous times, science diplomacy can help keep the world stable — if we let it.

By Fintan Burke

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Recommended articles from our editorial team on misinformation, cognitive science, and more.

By Jillian Mock

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Are You a Climate Culprit?

The carbon footprint and calculator were popularized by Big Oil to shift blame for climate change from industry to the individual. But you can turn the tables and use these tools for good.

By Victoria Clayton