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Does Musical Taste Narrow with Age?
What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve -
Can I Give You Some Advice?
Probably not -
Scientists Are People, Too
Can humanizing scientists help win back public trust? -
Shark Teeth Are Crumbling
As ocean acidity grows, it’s eating into their gnashers -
Why I Became a Birdwatcher
Learning to look past indifference and into the mystery of life
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Rogue Wave Mystery Solved
Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it
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When Nature Burst Into Vivid Color
Which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them?
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When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances
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You Can Help NASA Track Hurricane Damage
Cell phone photos can help in recovery efforts -
This Forest Survived a Megafire
Saving it involved destroying it twice -
Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future
Diseases that cause suffocation, paralysis, and childhood death are poised to come surging back -
Cities Obey the Laws of Living Things
All towns, big and small, are animals -
Here’s Why Binge-Watching Is Good for You
Rabidly consuming TV shows, movies, or books could make us more imaginative and able to cope with stress