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How the 1918 Pandemic Revolutionized Virology
The 20th century’s deadliest pandemic launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction.
Why Electric Cars Are Taking Off
It’s not that we like EVs more. They’re just way better now.
Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet
How the wager between a neuroscientist and a philosopher will keep paying off.
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.
A Scientific Breakthrough in Noise Reduction
Ionized air and wires may take headphones to the next level.
A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished
At first Adam Smith couldn’t believe his calculations. Then it sank in.
What the Dragonfly Knows
Researchers are studying their extraordinary flight patterns to help us build tiny aircraft and protect global ecosystems.
The Biologist Blowing Our Minds
Michael Levin is uncovering the incredible, latent abilities of living things.











