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This Mummy’s Tattoos Are Better Than Yours
Lasers reveal hidden details of ancient body ink -
The Evolution of a Mimic
What rove beetles can tell us about the predictability of life -
Argue Your Way to a Fuller Life
Refute your friends and family, never be satisfied. Philosopher Agnes Callard on life lessons from Socrates. -
Bringing Mars Rocks to Earth
It’s a bigger challenge than we thought -
The Incredible Conundrum of Life’s Origin
How to solve biology’s chicken-or-egg dilemma
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Pico Iyer’s Wide-Awake Silence
The author on losing his home to wildfire, finding strength in solitude, and his new book Aflame
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The Trouble with the Swamp
Wetlands in film are overwhelmingly associated with discomfort, misery, and death
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These Physicists Want to Ditch Dark Energy
The idea that mysterious stuff speeds up the acceleration of the universe could be a big mistake
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You Are What Your Ancestors Didn’t Eat
The impact of famine may be written in the bodies of future generations
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Breaking a Cycle of Apocalypse
John Larison’s new novel The Ancients suggests some societies are built for cataclysm -
Scent Makes a Place
How the desert taught me to smell -
The Genius of Benjamin Franklin
Richard Munson’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Ingenious, his biography of Franklin, the scientist. -
How to Read a Tsunami
Insights from a geophysicist. -
Science from the Tsunami
Illustrating what scientists have learned from the disaster 20 years ago.
