Biology
Posted by Mary Ellen Hannibal on December 05, 2019
What is a species? It’s a question that has agonized scientists since well before Darwin. With some exceptions, the thinking has landed on an evidently firm reproductive barrier: Members…
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Matter
Posted by Charlie Wood on November 27, 2019
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Like cosmic hard drives, black holes pack troves of data into compact spaces. But ever since Stephen Hawking calculated…
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Biology
Posted by Brandon Keim on November 21, 2019
Talk of “Mother Trees,” from a scientist studying plant life, can sound fanciful, like something out of a fairy tale. Suzanne Simard is here to tell you that it’s not. For the past…
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Culture
Posted by Brian Gallagher on November 18, 2019
In 2002, David M. Morens, now Senior Scientific Advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, wrote an essay called “At the Deathbed of Consumptive Art.” It featured…
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Matter
Posted by Marc Kaufman on November 15, 2019
Earth is most fortunate to have vast webs of magnetic fields surrounding it. Without them, much of our atmosphere would have been gradually torn away by powerful solar winds long ago, making…
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Biology
Posted by Alice Fleerackers on November 08, 2019
Recently I was in San Francisco, a city known for its tech companies, steep hills, and fierce winds. Each day I’d run around the neighborhood and up through the park, ending with a spectacular…
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Biology
Posted by Sam Goldman on November 06, 2019
Larry Mayer, a marine geophysicist, gets shivers when he looks at a night sky of stars. He understands why we explore outer space and NASA has spent billions mapping our extraterrestrial…
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Matter
Posted by Marcus Woo on November 01, 2019
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Of all the known particles in the universe, only photons outnumber neutrinos. Despite their abundance, however, neutrinos…
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Ideas
Posted by The Nautilus Team on October 30, 2019
From the newswire:Award-winning magazine and fast-growing science brand poised for growthAn investor group of super-fans has banded together as a single ownership group to acquire Nautilus,…
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Ideas
Posted by The Nautilus Team on October 30, 2019
SCIENCE MATTERSMore than ever. Science gave us the light bulb.Science gave us the tractor.Science gave us the vaccine.Science showed us the atom.Science showed us the gene.Science showed…
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