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Why Germs Love Our Collective Amnesia
Author Thomas Levenson on writing his new book So Very Small about humanity’s struggle to accept germs’ threats -
A Cicada Fossil Surprise
A new glimpse into their ancient history -
The Woman Who Saw Birds as Individuals
Len Howard opened her cottage—and our eyes—to the birds -
The Body Has a Head
You have never read a science book like this -
From the Debris of Halley’s Comet
This week, chunks of the famous comet will fall to Earth in the Eta Aquarids meteor shower -
The Stress Etched in Rose Petals
These symbols of romance are geometrical enigmas -
Ghost Forests Are Growing
Saltwater is killing trees along low-lying coasts, and marshes may move in -
My Visit with My Dead Father’s Brain
What I discovered about my dad and myself at the lab where his brain resides -
A Sci-fi Artist Who Draws From Real Life
A conversation with artist Yiran Jia. -
All Birds Roost in a Single Tree
The first evolutionary tree that includes every avian species -
How Female Bonobos Rule
Gangs give them strength and higher status in conflicts with males -
The Mathematical Mysteries of Fireflies
What blinking bugs reveal about synchrony in the universe
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This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies
A rare tribe lacks music for dancing or soothing their young ones
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The Creativity Hack No One Told You About
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas
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Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness
The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself
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A New Story for Malta
Evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on the island could reshape our understanding of human settlement in the Mediterranean
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Reclaiming Samples of Ourselves
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg explores the ethics of human specimen collections in Is a Biobank a Home?
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A Map for Vanishing Animals
The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts -
Asking Trees to Solve a Roman Conspiracy
Tree-ring records suggest that drought played a role in Roman Britain’s decline -
How Animals Understand Death
Intimations of mortality are not ours alone -
Revisiting an Iconic Space Hat
The Sombrero Galaxy returns in a revamped Hubble image -
Snakes Break All the Rules
Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World