Biology
Posted by Robert Bazell on March 17, 2021
After I got my second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a wave of euphoria infused me along with the modified messenger RNA. Many friends describe the same feeling. This is the end of the pandemic…
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Biology
Posted by Maki Naro & Diana Kwon on March 15, 2021
This piece was produced in cooperation with the Nib.Maki Naro is an award-winning feral cartoonist and science communicator. You can reliably find him online, where he tweets from the…
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Biology
Posted by Tam Hunt on March 10, 2021
Life seems to be tied to bioelectricity at every level. The late electrophysiologist and surgeon Robert Becker spent decades researching the role of the body’s electric fields in development,…
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Culture
Posted by Jim Davies on March 10, 2021
INT. HOME OFFICE—DAYBODY, a middle-aged woman, is working at a computer, trying to finish a plan for the household budget.HabitsOh! It’s time to walk the dog.BODY stops typing.Central…
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Culture
Posted by Brian Gallagher on March 08, 2021
The small wonders of the natural world impressed Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya early. As a girl, growing up in Atlanta, she was encouraged by her mother to draw sketches of things she could…
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Ideas
Posted by Julie Sedivy on March 04, 2021
As economic inequality increased in many wealthy nations in recent years, a debate has developed around the question of whether inequality is bad for national economies—and bad for their…
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Biology
Posted by Caleb Scharf on February 15, 2021
Did you know that there are many scientists who devote their working lives to skillfully charting out the most unassuming chunks of our solar system—chunks that none of our species will…
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Ideas
Posted by Jim Davies on February 12, 2021
Would you like to be more rational? Of course you would. Who doesn’t want to behave and think more reasonably? Good news: New research, from Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, suggests…
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Ideas
Posted by Charlie Wood on January 28, 2021
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.What lies beyond all we can see? The question may seem unanswerable. Nevertheless, some cosmologists have a response:…
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Culture
Posted by Jim Davies on January 15, 2021
Did you ever have an imaginary friend? If you didn’t, chances are you know someone who did. Imaginary companions, as scholars call them, are quite common, and aren’t strictly associated…
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