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Biomedical engineer David Camarillo reveals how much scientists still don’t know about concussion and the brain.

Artist Janet Echelman constructs massive fiber art pieces to encourage people to stop, look up and wonder.

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“Lying is a cooperative act,” says professional lie detector Pamela Meyer. “Think about it, a lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.” Here, Meyer shares 17 books about truth, dishonesty, and all the gray areas in between.

There’s a kind of Hunger Games occurring among organizations and brands to seize people’s attention and loyalty. Here’s what it takes to win power in today’s hyperconnected age, according to activists Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms.

In this contested territory, women must endure a lengthy, frustrating process when they pursue a university education abroad. Here are four of their stories.

Architect Ole Scheeren is fed up with the rigid, hierarchy of the skyscraper. He hopes his buildings will change the way we think about soaring towers.

Johan Rockström’s theory of climate boundaries has proven so influential it’s been adopted by the Vatican. Writer John Carey digs into the theory — and why Rockström says his isn’t, actually, a doomsday message.

After examining dozens of Ice Age cave sites across Europe, paleo-archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger found our ancestors used a small group of signs in common. Here, she walks us through her eye-opening discoveries and their implications.

We need to have more honest, open-ended conversations about race and bias — in our own lives and in the TV shows and movies we see, says diversity consultant Vernā Myers.