Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared on Nautilus… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
It doesn’t feel right to see a toddler walking down the street by themselves. Toddlers don’t just go rogue, and if they do they… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our… | Continue reading
A god who knows everything, is everywhere, and wields impossible power, is a potent fantasy. Allegiance to it animates the lives of… | Continue reading
Well into the 1980s, doctors would perform open-heart surgery on infants without giving them pain-relieving drugs. This is hard to… | Continue reading
Well into the 1980s, doctors would perform open-heart surgery on infants without giving them pain-relieving drugs. This is hard to… | Continue reading
Ten thousand years ago, a mother clutched her growing belly. A month earlier, the pregnancy had become difficult—something was wrong.… | Continue reading
A god who knows everything, is everywhere, and wields impossible power, is a potent fantasy. Allegiance to it animates the lives of… | Continue reading
Socotra’s gregarious Egyptian vultures are a bright spot in an otherwise sobering global story.Photograph by Oriol AlamanyOn a bright… | Continue reading
Jennifer Heldmann laughed when I pointed out that she used the word “unprecedented” five times in a recent paper. “I should… | Continue reading
When I first adopted Lucas nine years ago from a cat rescue organization in Washington, D.C., his name was Puck. “Because he’s… | Continue reading
Massage therapy could treat a wide range of ailments, from peripheral artery disease to inflammatory myopathy.Image by Bartek Zyczynski… | Continue reading
It’s Monday morning of some week in 2050 and you’re shuffling into your kitchen, drawn by the smell of fresh coffee C-3PO has… | Continue reading
Jennifer Heldmann laughed when I pointed out that she used the word “unprecedented” five times in a recent paper. “I should… | Continue reading
All the Biomass of Earth, in One GraphicOur planet supports approximately 8.7 million species, of which over a quarter live in… | Continue reading
On a cold, dry Tuesday in December, 1940, Rita Levi-Montalcini rode a train from the station near her home in Turin, Italy, for 80… | Continue reading
Sea waves are among the world’s most misunderstood phenomena. When an incoming wave breaks on the shoreline, it appears as though… | Continue reading
Each year across the world, kids of roughly the same age are packed into classrooms and confined to desks with the intent of learning… | Continue reading
Sea waves are among the world’s most misunderstood phenomena. When an incoming wave breaks on the shoreline, it appears as though… | Continue reading
On a cold, dry Tuesday in December, 1940, Rita Levi-Montalcini rode a train from the station near her home in Turin, Italy, for 80… | Continue reading
Many of us hit the beach to enjoy some sunshine or catch a wave. But for Dutch artist Theo Jansen it’s all about the wind. Jansen’s… | Continue reading
Nobody understands quantum mechanics,” Richard Feynman famously said. Long after Max Planck’s discovery in 1900 that energy comes… | Continue reading
Impossible! The word resonated throughout the large lecture hall. I had just finished describing a revolutionary concept for a new… | Continue reading
On a May evening in 1959, C.P. Snow, a popular novelist and former research scientist, gave a lecture before a gathering of dons and… | Continue reading
Many of us hit the beach to enjoy some sunshine or catch a wave. But for Dutch artist Theo Jansen it’s all about the wind. Jansen’s… | Continue reading
Impossible! The word resonated throughout the large lecture hall. I had just finished describing a revolutionary concept for a new… | Continue reading
Nobody understands quantum mechanics,” Richard Feynman famously said. Long after Max Planck’s discovery in 1900 that energy comes… | Continue reading
Many of us hit the beach to enjoy some sunshine or catch a wave. But for Dutch artist Theo Jansen it’s all about the wind. Jansen’s… | Continue reading
Must we always follow reason? Do I need a rational argument for why I should fall in love, cherish my children, enjoy the pleasures… | Continue reading
At first, no one looked twice at the new variant. Detected in South Africa in January 2021, the novel coronavirus lineage, called… | Continue reading
A few years ago, at the Princeton Club in Manhattan, I chanced on a memorable chat with the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. His… | Continue reading
I’m standing on an observation platform atop 24 colossal pressure cookers that belong to DC Water, the sewage treatment plant of… | Continue reading