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How to Avoid Empathy Burnout

Caregivers can benefit by understanding a patient’s pain without feeling it themselves.

March 25, 2016

Why Nature Prefers Hexagons

The geometric rules behind fly eyes, honeycombs, and soap bubbles.

March 25, 2016

Does Stress Speed Up Evolution?

Getting control of the molecular mechanisms that drive rapid mutations.

March 24, 2016

Spark of Science: Sean B. Carroll

One biologist’s love for science got kickstarted by snakes.

March 24, 2016

Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

Why life is constrained to be about the sizes we see on Earth.

March 24, 2016

Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too

How a steady diet of fertilizers has turned crops into couch potatoes.