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A Scientist Walks Into a Bar …
How comedy plays on our emotions to fight misinformation. -
How Melting Ice Has Altered Time-Keeping
Climate change could upend how we synchronize global clocks forever. -
Discovering the First Other Earths
Inside the hunt for habitable planets. -
Color-Coding Crops for Climate Change
Novel ways to use gene-editing to make farming more sustainable. -
Why Animals Run Faster than Robots
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. -
What Counts as Consciousness
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria. -
The Curious Life of a Singing Fish
Plainfin midshipman fish migrate from the deep sea to spawn—and then things get weird. -
Insects and Other Animals May Have Consciousness
A new consensus emerges. -
Sardines Are Feeling the Squeeze
Climate change and overfishing are decimating sardines in the Philippines. -
Consciousness, Creativity, and Godlike AI
American writer Meghan O’Gieblyn on when the mind is alive. -
I Never Stopped Learning from Daniel Dennett
Reflections on a philosopher who believed we can solve the problem of consciousness. -
10 Brilliant Insights from Daniel Dennett
A glimpse of a mind jammed to the rafters with ideas.
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The Soviet Rebel of Music
He composed on a computer in a dangerous time. His echo is still heard today.
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How Whales Could Help Us Speak to Aliens
Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact.
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Making Light of Gravity
Physicist Claudia de Rham on her 3 greatest revelations while writing The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity.
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The Feminist Botanist
A 19th-century tale of hermaphrodite flowers, Charles Darwin, and women’s right to vote. -
The Psychology of Getting High—a Lot
Time to extinguish the slacker cliche. -
The Shark Whisperer
Donald Nelson spent his life undoing the damage that Jaws did to the perception of sharks. -
Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That Went Dark
Bright ideas from astronomy’s biggest stars haven’t always worked out. -
The Part-Time Climate Scientist
A humble steam engineer put humans in the driver’s seat.