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WHEN IT COMES to cosmic speed limits, light gets all the attention. Its velocity in a vacuum, a tad below 300m metres per second, is an absolute upper bound on how fast anything in the universe can ...

Walk, skip or run — people travel at many speeds, but how do our minds tell the difference? Researchers in Norway have detected a subset of neurons in rats that serve as the brain’s speedometer — they ...

Without looking at any other story in this issue (Volume 25), take a gander at the image at the top of this page and tell me what that black object is. This story originally appeared in Volume 25 of ...