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The Oceans Are Teeming with Unknown Species

Scientists are finding 2,000 new marine species a year. Why it matters to name and categorize them.

May 18, 2022

No Two Human Brains Are Alike

The uniqueness of each mind is written in its ever-changing circuitry.

May 17, 2022

What Is Time?

The more closely we observe the present moment, the more amorphous it becomes.

May 12, 2022

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse in Science

The multiverse of pop culture owes its existence to a testable scientific hypothesis.

May 11, 2022

How Much Is the Ocean Worth?

Putting a price tag on the ocean might just save it.

May 11, 2022

We Were Here

How advanced civilizations could leave us a message of their presence.

May 6, 2022

A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture

Imani Black is working to bring people of color into marine conservation and production.

May 4, 2022

We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET

Extraterrestrials could take our intergalactic message in entirely the wrong way.

May 4, 2022

“I Have to Admit, I Have a Very Low Opinion of Human Beings”

Why the father of neuroscience, toward the end of his career, preferred to study ants.

May 4, 2022

He Fast-Forwarded Evolution into the Future

Forty years ago, a paleontologist pictured Earth millions of years from now. His vision is a wake-up call for us today.

April 27, 2022

What Lurks in a Drowned Forest in Alabama?

The next miracle drug might be hiding in a primeval undersea forest.

April 25, 2022