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This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from It All
Why Fotini Markopoulou traded quantum gravity for industrial design.
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.
Why the Songbird’s Serenade Is Going Off Key
Urban din is forcing animal mating calls to be either unsexy or unheard.
The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves
A relatively unknown experiment is already drawing conclusions from the sound of silence.
Spark of Science: France A. Cordova
The director of the National Science Foundation on what brought her back to science.
The Noise at the Bottom of the Universe
The origin of quantum noise is the modern incarnation of a millennia-old debate.











