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The Best Photos of the Artemis II Mission

Humans have never taken photos of the moon like this

The Centuries-Old History of the Super El Niño

We may get an exceptionally strong El Niño this year, but we’ve been tracking the climatic cycle since 1578

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course

Astronomers find a pair of super close, supermassive black holes for the first time

Solid Proof That Our Mammal Ancestors Laid Eggs

How ancient reproduction paved the way for mammals

Time Brings Order to the Universe

These scientists are proposing a new law of nature

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The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame

A conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice

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Saving the Girl with Dementia

It takes a family to drive research for a rare disease forward

When Scientists Are Dinosaurs 

At the paleontology conference, her new theory was shouted down

What Comes After Artemis II

Artemis II was one small step in another giant leap

Did This 17th-Century Novel Presage the Coming Artemis II Observations?

When a father of astronomy wrote the first science-fiction book about the dark side of the moon

The Creator of the SAT Was an Infamous Eugenicist

The racist origin story of the most common college entrance exam

A Very Unscientific History of Scientific Hoaxes

The past, present, and future of academic deception

The Martyrs, Hunters, and Nature Lovers Who Came Together to Save Birds

An interview with James McCommons, author of The Feather Wars, about the past and future of bird conservation

The Costs of Feeling Lonely in a Crowd

An interview with a loneliness researcher about the varieties of social isolation

Can Plants Count?

It seems as though they can at least track the number of events in their environment

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The Deep Secrets of the Nautilus

Evolutionary time has forged changes in these shelled cephalopods

Bumblebees Bounce to the Beat

Suggesting deep evolutionary roots of rhythm in animals

A Light in the Dark: Finding the Good in the Natural World

Is it absurd to think that science can inform our values?

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science

Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it

Doing Science and Philosophy On Drugs

Justin Smith-Ruiu takes a philosophical and first-person look at psychedelics

Survival of the Wittiest

How verbal humor arose and how it protects us