Humans haven’t taken photos of Earth from this distance in half a century

And eavesdrop on mission control

It was formed by an explosion witnessed around the world almost a millennium ago

The past, present, and future of academic deception

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

A top-secret 1960s project tasked physics postdocs with building The Bomb

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

There’s a reason it’s a popular aphorism

A new twist on the placebo effect

Coalescing all known information about cacti for anyone who needs to know

That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

They’re indispensable ecosystem engineers

Respect your elders

And the trade-offs inherent to every twitch

It wasn’t a great time to be a beluga-like whale

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

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

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