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Jim Davies is a professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is co-host of the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. His latest book is Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.

Jim Davies

Psychology

Why Your Sleeping Brain Replays New Rewarding Experiences

Helena Miton

Sociology

What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution

<a target="blank" href="https://www.claudiageib.com/" rel="noopener">Claudia Geib</a> is a science journalist and editor based on Cape Cod. Her work covers marine and environmental science, wildlife, and how humans connect with the natural world.

Claudia Geib

Environment

Going Deep With Hadal Zone Expert Alan Jamieson

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Brian Gallagher

Communication

Talking Pop Science with Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

Phil Jaekl is a freelance science writer and author with an academic background in cognitive neuroscience. His latest book is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Out-Cold-Controversial-Lifesaving-Hypothermia/dp/1541756754">Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia</a>. He lives in the Norwegian Arctic in Tromsø.

Phil Jaekl

Evolution

Humans Are One Mixed-Up Ape

New Evidence That Therapy Can Make You Happier

Robert Bazell

Health

How the Drug Industry Has Exploited Reforms Started in the Fight Against AIDS

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, in Germany, focusing on modifications of general relativity, phenomenological quantum gravity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics. She is the creative director of the YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw">“Science without the gobbledygook”</a> where she talks about recent scientific developments and debunks hype. Her latest book is <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616868/existential-physics-by-sabine-hossenfelder/">Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions</a>. Follow her on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/skdh">@skdh</a>.

Sabine Hossenfelder

Physics

The End of Reductionism Could Be Nigh. Or Not.

Joshua Cain

Neuroscience

My Lab Uses Ultrasound to Stimulate Unconscious Patients

Joshua Holden

Technology

We Already Know How to Stop SolarWinds-Like Hacks

Thomas Levenson is a professor of science writing at MIT. He is the author of several books, including So Very Small, Money for Nothing, The Hunt for Vulcan, Einstein in Berlin, and Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist. He has also made ten feature-length documentaries for which he has won numerous awards.

Thomas Levenson

The “Lab Leak”: It’s Not Enough to Say Accidents Happen

Mary Ellen Hannibal is the author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction, the winner of Stanford’s Knight-Risser Prize in Western Environmental Literature, and a Stanford media fellow.

Mary Ellen Hannibal

Arts

Film Contest Gives Young Environmental Activists a Voice

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