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Natural Selection in an Outbreak

Every time a disease spreads, it has another chance to mutate.

October 25, 2016

Feel Different: Breaking Your Cell Phone’s Hold

Unreliable rewards trap us into addictive cell phone use, but they can also get us out.

Ingenious: Richard Dawkins

The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost.

October 21, 2016

The Martians Are Coming—and They’re Human

How settling Mars could create a new human species.

October 21, 2016

Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food

By 2050, it’s likely that plastic in the oceans will outweigh all the oceans’ fish.

October 17, 2016

There May Be Two Trillion Other Galaxies

Every point in the sky contains part of a galaxy.

October 13, 2016