Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed The Matrix, is criticizing right-wing misinterpretations of the hit sci-fi film. "Right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything," Wachowski said on a recent ...

Language shapes our thoughts—or does it? Decades of research on aphasia, the loss of language following brain injury, indicates that language and thought are distinct in the brain.

France's "empty diagonal" is a sparsely populated band stretching southwest to northeast, characterized by low population densities below 30 inhabitants per square kilometer. This phenomenon, rooted ...