Brian Gallagher
How Genes Refract Chance
The geneticist Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the influence of modern genetics on our ideas of chance and fate.
Why Women Choose Differently at Work
Psychologist Susan Pinker on the role of choice in gender differences in the workplace.
Obsessed With Blastocysts
Janet Rossant, a rockstar stem cell scientist, was first just curious about blastocysts.
Why It’s Good to Be Curious About Insects
Entomology—and all curiosity driven research—catalyzes unexpected, useful discoveries.
The Problem with the Mutation-Centric View of Cancer
Researchers need to widen their focus on the micro-environments in which cancer thrives.
There May Be Two Trillion Other Galaxies
In 1939, the year Edwin Hubble won the Benjamin Franklin award for his studies of “extra-galactic nebulae,” he paid a visit to an ailing friend. Depressed and interred at Las Encinas Hospital, a mental health facility, the friend, an actor and playwright named John Emerson, asked Hubble what—spiritually, cosmically—he believed in. In Edwin Hubble: Mariner […]
