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Portrait of the Human as a Young Hominin
How the world looked when we were Australopithecus.
Life’s First Peptides May Have Grown on RNA Strands
RNA and peptides coevolving in the primordial world might have jointly served as a precursor to the modern ribosome.
You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week
What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
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.
No Two Human Brains Are Alike
The uniqueness of each mind is written in its ever-changing circuitry.
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse in Science
The multiverse of pop culture owes its existence to a testable scientific hypothesis.
A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture
Imani Black is working to bring people of color into marine conservation and production.
We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET
Extraterrestrials could take our intergalactic message in entirely the wrong way.