The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique | Continue reading
Mike meet everyone, everyone meet Mike. No, no, don't wave. He can't see, you're just making this awkward. Also known as Miracle Mike, Mike the Headless Chicken was a plump, five-year-old cockerel when he was unceremoniously beheaded on 10 September 1945. | Continue reading
I have been fascinated with living things since childhood. Growing up in northern California, I spent a lot of time playing outdoors among plants and animals. | Continue reading
You are more important than you think -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Nine scientists became new Nobel Laureates this week when the 2014 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics and Physiology or Medicine were announced. | Continue reading
Elizabeth Stern’s research led the way to our modern understanding of the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of cervical cancer -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com | Continue reading
Everyone knows that history's great mathematicians were all men—but everybody is wrong | Continue reading
Adding a chapter in the story of what makes us human | Continue reading
In January of 1870, Alfred Russel Wallace found himself on a collision-course with a group of creationists who fervently believed the earth is flat. | Continue reading
Despite what you'll often read, the Nobel prizewinning nuclear physicist never suggested that aliens don't exist | Continue reading
One of the leading behavioral geneticists of our time is promulgating outdated notions about the interplay of nature and nurture | Continue reading
Just ask Schopenhauer | Continue reading
There can be substantial trade-offs between seeking happiness and seeking meaning in life | Continue reading
As any avid Star Trek fan can tell you, the eccentric physicist Zefram Cochrane invented the warp-drive engine in the year 2063. It wasn't easy. | Continue reading
Wooden floors. Open concept. Giant kitchen islands. Marble countertops. Large windows. High ceilings. Walk-in closets. Space for entertaining. Stainless steel appliances. These are some of the criteria that potential television home-buyers list when discussing what they want in a … | Continue reading
“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness | Continue reading
The debates about giftedness continue | Continue reading
A U.S.-Mexico corridor of renewable energy and water could have prevented widespread emergencies | Continue reading
The goal should not be conversion but doubt | Continue reading
On Christmas Eve 1968 people worldwide stepped back from the throes of crises and recognized themselves as citizens of a tiny, fragile planet | Continue reading
Haversine? Exsecant? An introduction to obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore | Continue reading
Don’t be too quick to throw away those Thanksgiving leftovers. By saving that turkey and stuffing to eat another day, you can help save a lot of energy from ending up in the garbage bin | Continue reading
Prominent scientists exaggerate the violence of Native Americans, whom European invaders ravaged. | Continue reading
Interactive data visualization charts the changing popularity of 195 different foods over time | Continue reading
As we all sit down tonight to feast on turkey and pumpkin pie, many of us will be going around the table giving thanks for our everyday sources of gratitude, like friendships, relationships, and good health. | Continue reading
Many of the "American" foods we love came from parts of the world Pres. Trump has vilified | Continue reading
I feel grief, guilt, anger, determination, hope and sadness all at the same time. But what I feel more than anything is gratitude for what we have | Continue reading
Like a starfish, an octopus can regrow lost arms. Unlike a starfish, a severed octopus arm does not regrow another octopus. But the biological secrets inside their arm regeneration feat do hold the promise of learning more about how we might better regenerate our own diseased or … | Continue reading
For Halloween, I wrote about a very scary topic: higher homotopy groups. Homotopy is an idea in topology, the field of math concerned with properties of shapes that stay the same no matter how you squish or stretch them, as long as you don’t tear them or glue things togethe … | Continue reading
If you think all of your memories are real and accurate, think again | Continue reading
Computing a world of snowflakes | Continue reading
You might be surprised to learn that microhylid frogs in Peru, India, Sri Lanka and perhaps elsewhere have developed close relationships with large spiders... | Continue reading
Topology is all about squishing and stretching; distance shouldn't matter. But the infinite earring illustrates the delicate interplay between topology and geometry. | Continue reading
More time online during the pandemic can expose them to abuse—but virtual spaces can also offer a crucial lifeline | Continue reading