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Plants Have an “Ear” for Music

Plant bioacoustics is a growing field of interest in science.

January 19, 2017

Fictional Multiverses Are Frankly Kind of Lame

And sorry, Eleven, but psychic powers won’t transport you to another world.

January 19, 2017

How to Build a Probability Microscope

The surprising mathematics of the extremely rare.

January 19, 2017

How to Be Lucky

It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.

January 19, 2017

Graph Isomorphism Vanquished—Again

László Babai has fixed the flaw in his retracted claim.

January 18, 2017

The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe

There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.

January 13, 2017

Spark of Science: Pardis Sabeti

The computational geneticist explains why she chose research over being a doctor.

January 13, 2017

Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

The surprising message of the statistics of wealth distribution.

January 13, 2017