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This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from It All

Why Fotini Markopoulou traded quantum gravity for industrial design.

July 19, 2016

These Clumps of Undigested Food Used to Be Medicinal Charms

Folks got it into their heads that bezoars were a powerful antidote against any poison.

July 18, 2016

Why the Songbird’s Serenade Is Going Off Key

Urban din is forcing animal mating calls to be either unsexy or unheard.

July 14, 2016

The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves

A relatively unknown experiment is already drawing conclusions from the sound of silence.

July 14, 2016

Spark of Science: France A. Cordova

The director of the National Science Foundation on what brought her back to science.

July 14, 2016

How Noise Makes Music

We use music to make sense of the squawks, creaks, and roars around us.

July 14, 2016

These Nature Photographs Aren’t What They Seem

The visual playfulness of Simen Johan.

July 12, 2016

The Noise at the Bottom of the Universe

The origin of quantum noise is the modern incarnation of a millennia-old debate.

July 11, 2016