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Environment

Iran’s Great, Dying Salt Lake

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

Health

How a Mental Disorder Can Disappear from the World Overnight

Veronique Greenwood

Technology

A Material So Dark That It Looks Like a Black Hole

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Neuroscience

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Ben Goldfarb is an environmental journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic, and many other publications. He is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter.

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Iran’s Great, Dying Salt Lake

How a Mental Disorder Can Disappear from the World Overnight

A Material So Dark That It Looks Like a Black Hole

The Pufferfish’s Lethal Poison Shows Up Right Under Our Feet

Why Do Amputees Feel the Ache of Nothingness?

Public, Pointed Scientific Spats—Feature, Not Bug

What Do Blind People Actually See?

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The Pretty Bacterial Dance That May Help Prevent Infections

The Minds & Algorithms That Make Hollywood Spectacle

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