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How Your Embryo Knew What To Do

The forgotten story of the woman who discovered how animals get their shape.

November 20, 2015

The Inside of a Neutron Star Looks Spookily Familiar

Exotic ultra-compressed matter can look like pasta, among other things.

November 17, 2015

Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

November 17, 2015

Why We’re Patriotic

Whether it’s our country or our football team, we need to belong.

November 12, 2015

The Man Who Used Facebook to Find an Extinct Human Species

Lee Berger has a knack for finding fossils his own way.

November 12, 2015

Through Fortitude or Stupidity, Lee Berger Is Rewriting Human History

The paleoanthropologist makes no apologies for going his own way.

November 12, 2015

Identity Is an Inside Joke

Why you laugh with your friends.

November 12, 2015

Science Is Proving That Tragic Curses Are Real

Epigenetics and behaviorism suggest the ancient Greeks were right.

November 12, 2015

Is Farmed Salmon Really Salmon?

The staple fish is having an identity crisis.

November 12, 2015