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The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe
Why are we here? Is there life on other planets? The renowned scientists who share a name share their answers to life’s big questions. -
Finding Beauty in the Struggle Between Light and Darkness
A conversation with artist Deena So’Oteh. -
We Are Light-Eaters
The language we share with plants—and all life under the sun. -
Back to the Galapagos
A visit with evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant. -
This Ocean Wave Has Rights
The true meaning of legal protection for nature. -
Meet My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher
How friendship with long-dead thinkers can help us live better. -
Reviving Mayan Blue
A Mexican artist rediscovers a lost color sacred to his ancestors. -
AI Is the Black Mirror
Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying. -
The Kinship Issue
Connection is primal. -
How Big Is Your Family?
Living with a Papua New Guinea tribe in the ’80s presented this anthropologist with a question for today. -
Star Siblings Tell Tales of Galactic Chaos
Stellar bodies from other galaxies are all around us. -
Why Do Animals Adopt?
Taking responsibility for another’s young reveals the deep evolutionary roots of care.
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Is Technology Worthy of Our Faith?
Harvard and MIT humanist chaplain Greg M. Epstein on his 3 greatest revelations while writing Tech Agnostic.
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An Archaeological Reckoning
Jennifer Raff is on a mission to rewrite the history of human origins in the Americas.
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Voyagers Ready to Go Dark
Earth’s most distant space probes prepare for their inevitable long night.
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An Artful Seduction
Bowerbirds arrange flowers, dung, and shotgun shells to create elaborate love shacks.
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That Healing Sound
When music is medicine. -
The New Climate Math on Hurricanes
For the first time, we can calculate how much climate change impacts a single storm’s severity. -
Consciousness Has a Psychology Problem
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind. -
A Stolen Egg
A winning photograph shows a wasp that has parasitized an egg. -
When Work Is Play
Patchen Barss on his 3 greatest revelations while writing The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius.
