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Revisiting C.P. Snow’s infamous thesis.

Understanding how oceans move is key to understanding life on Earth

Debating a modern parable about waste and technology.

How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.

The author on writing her new book, “The Other Dark Matter.”

New work establishes a tighter connection between the rank of a polynomial and the extent to which it favors particular outputs.

Experiments once considered crazy are now helping scientists attack tumors.

Great writers waxed poetic over “milky seas.” Here’s the science behind the glow.

As long as there are vulnerable populations, a virus will evolve. That’s nature.

Experiments once considered crazy are now helping scientists attack tumors.

Time was found to flow differently between the top and bottom of a single cloud of atoms. Physicists hope that such a system will one day help them combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of gravity.

Spearfisher turned marine activist Valerie Taylor wants you to respect these oft-maligned creatures—not fear them.