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Going Deep With Hadal Zone Expert Alan Jamieson
This British scientist explores terrain 35,000 feet below the surface—and has some advice for the landlubbers.
Reports of a Baleful Internet Are Greatly Exaggerated
Our digital technologies can in fact be cognitive aids.
Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See
It’s time to retire the hierarchical classification of living things.
Hidden in Plain Sight
How a trail of plastic waste might help us find the mysterious Velella
Here’s the Right Story for Vaccine Holdouts
Two public health experts explain how to cut through the noise about COVID-19 vaccines.
Life at the Edge of Impossible
Ten thousand feet under the sea, these snails thrive with a little help from their friends.
Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
