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The director of the National Science Foundation on what brought her back to science.

We use music to make sense of the squawks, creaks, and roars around us.

The visual playfulness of Simen Johan.

The origin of quantum noise is the modern incarnation of a millennia-old debate.

A handful of underfunded researchers still believe science can defy the odds.

Our sense of smell may have evolved to detect danger, not beauty.

How your brain keeps you from falling on your face.

A physicist explains what the composer has in common with the dawn of the cosmos.