Universality

Deep in the ocean abyss, xenophyophores are worlds unto themselves.

What is lost when we lose in-person learning.

Getting to the core of today’s social acrimony.

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those dye molecules are going to slowly spread throughout the water. Physicists quantify this tendency to spread by counting the number of possible ways the dye molecules […]

Marine biologist Heather Koldewey on conservation, seahorses, and cross-discipline work.

Why science changes everything.

Music brings us together to show us how different we are.

There may be more than one way to tune a universe for life.

His dream of feeding the world died in prison. His dream of a seed bank lives on.

Odds are, if an asteroid hadn’t crashed into Earth, we wouldn’t be here.