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A theory of consciousness can help build a theory of everything.

We understand conscious experiences only in light of our nature as living creatures.

Mapping the heliosphere, which shields us from harmful cosmic rays.

A physicist-turned-photographer captures the incredible harmony of starling murmurations.

Inside America’s propaganda campaign, “Atoms for Peace,” launched in the wake of Hiroshima.

To understand self-organization in nature, behold the sandpile.

To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics.

DNA mutations are hard to fix. Scientists are trying another approach.

Uncovering one of the greatest environmental crimes of the 20th century.

New technology enables filmmakers to capture how animals use color like never before.