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Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See
It’s time to retire the hierarchical classification of living things.
Hidden in Plain Sight
How a trail of plastic waste might help us find the mysterious Velella
Here’s the Right Story for Vaccine Holdouts
Two public health experts explain how to cut through the noise about COVID-19 vaccines.
Life at the Edge of Impossible
Ten thousand feet under the sea, these snails thrive with a little help from their friends.
Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
Pandemic Puts Mathematical Modeling Through Its Paces
Mathematical tools that proved essential during the pandemic were in many cases invented by mathematicians who had no particular goal in mind.
Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception
Hallucinatory drugs may allow our brains to let go of prior beliefs.
