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The eminent oceanographer Walter Munk reflects on science and war.

Two ways of approximating the ultra-complicated math that governs quark particles have recently come into conflict, leaving physicists unsure what their decades-old theory predicts.

In the fight against viruses and other pathogens, scientists are looking beyond genes and proteins to the complex sugars, or glycans, on cell surfaces.

Philosophy is needed to put the science of COVID-19 in perspective.

Scientists putting their lives on the line can take heart from a great astronomer.

Scientists putting their career and health on the line can take heart from Galileo.

I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world.

In turbulent times, people go from “me” thinking to “we” thinking.

Plants talk to this ecologist. They tell her how to do better science.