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Puberty Hasn’t Changed Since the Ice Age

The blueprint was set at least 25,000 years ago.

September 19, 2024

When Do Kids Start Playing Pretend?

It’s complicated.

September 18, 2024

When Einstein and Kafka Met

Imagining a conversation between the two great minds.

September 18, 2024

7 Famous Fossil Hoaxes

How scientists over history excavated the fakes.

September 17, 2024

How History Did the Dodo Wrong

Who are you calling inept and unfit?

September 16, 2024

An Artist on Why AI Isn’t the End of Art

A conversation with Issue 56 cover artist Chris Buzelli.

September 16, 2024

Feeling Gravity’s Pull

Two theoretical physicists have a lively conversation about how abstract concepts can feel down-to-Earth.

September 13, 2024

The Stealthy Assassin Robberfly

Don’t underestimate this slender predator from the British grasslands.

September 13, 2024

Falling Down a Rabbit Hole in Real Life

Neurologists are just beginning to understand Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

September 12, 2024

We’re Bad at Understanding Our Political Opponents

Even when we think we know them, we don’t.

September 11, 2024

A Movie Camera for the Cosmos

The Rubin observatory will allow scientists to see how the cosmos has evolved over time.

September 10, 2024

Our Morals Change with the Seasons

How our sense of what’s right and wrong fluctuates through the year.

September 9, 2024