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Secret Military Test, Coming Soon to Your Spanish Class
A powerful, precise language aptitude test is entering civilian life.
Take Light, Not Drugs
How light therapy can treat disorders from depression to Alzheimer’s disease.
Lights, Camera, Acrimony!
Physicists and engineers face off over how to make room for more data.
The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics
His curious discovery, 200 years ago, foresaw our expanding universe.
The Billion-Dollar Telescope Race
How three groups are competing to make the first extremely large telescope.
20 Ways to See the Light
The meaning of light through history in science, religion, philosophy, and culture.
The Seeds That Sowed a Revolution
Galapagos Finches are famous, yet Darwin learned more about evolution from the plants.
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.
Best of 2013: The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave
Our picture of man’s early home has been skewed by modern preconceptions.