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Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Math

Mathematics Suggest That Fashion Is on a 20-Year Cycle

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Technology

Discarded Plastic Can Be Converted Into Parkinson’s Drug

Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.

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The Secret of Fireflies’ Synchronous Flashing

Marlene Zuk is Regents Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and New Scientist. Her book <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691264240/outsider-animals" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us</a> is available now.

Marlene Zuk

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Zoology

Consider the Cockroach

Jo Marchant is the author of <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324097488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment</a>. She has written several popular books, including The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars and the New York Times bestseller Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in London.

Jo Marchant

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Physics

Welcome to the Block Universe

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

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Astronomy

Why Haven’t We Heard from Extraterrestrials Yet?

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