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Secret Military Test, Coming Soon to Your Spanish Class

A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life.

April 7, 2014

Take Light, Not Drugs

How light therapy can treat disorders from depression to Alzheimer’s disease.

March 6, 2014

Lights, Camera, Acrimony!

Physicists and engineers face off over how to make room for more data.

March 5, 2014

The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics

His curious discovery, 200 years ago, foresaw our expanding universe.

March 5, 2014

The Billion-Dollar Telescope Race

How three groups are competing to make the first extremely large telescope.

March 5, 2014

20 Ways to See the Light

The meaning of light through history in science, religion, philosophy, and culture.

February 28, 2014

The Seeds That Sowed a Revolution

Galapagos Finches are famous, yet Darwin learned more about evolution from the plants.

February 6, 2014

The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew)

All sophisticated life on the planet Earth may owe its existence to one freakish event.

February 3, 2014

The Mystery of Time’s Arrow

Past and future may not be what they seem.

January 21, 2014

The Pleasure and Pain of Speed

Are we willing to speed our lives up indefinitely?

January 21, 2014

Life Is a Braid in Spacetime

How to see yourself in a world where only math is real.

January 3, 2014

Best of 2013: The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave

Our picture of man’s early home has been skewed by modern preconceptions.

December 12, 2013