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The Environmental Headache in Your Shampoo

Palm oil is an environmental scourge. Plant biology has a solution.

Dawn of the Heliocene

Why the next geological epoch should be named for when we tapped the sun’s energy.

September 15, 2020

Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit

The language algorithm GPT-3 continues our descent into a post-truth world.

September 9, 2020

The Universe Knows Right from Wrong

A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.

September 9, 2020

Toxic but Fascinating

Jellyfish have mesmerized people for millennia, and much remains to be learned about them.

September 9, 2020

A New Cosmic Tension: The Universe Might Be Too Thin

Cosmologists have concluded that the universe doesn’t appear to clump as much as it should. Could both of cosmology’s big puzzles share a single fix?

September 9, 2020

Outbreak

September 3, 2020

The Neurons That Appeared from Nowhere

How an accident led to what could be a medical revolution.

September 2, 2020