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In a sensory deprivation tank, I lost my body and found myself.

As arable land disappears, a genetic tweak might secure the world’s food supply.

An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future.

They look like scientific papers. But they’re distorting and killing science.

In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why.

“Did you like the grenade I tossed in their midst?” the biologist asked me.

H.A. Rey recreated star maps with wit, grace, and accuracy.

Why intellectual laziness doesn’t have to lead to groupthink.

Scientists have never been able to adequately explain where lightning comes from. Now the first detailed observations of its emergence inside a cloud have exposed how electric fields grow strong enough to let bolts fly.