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How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.

The author on writing her new book, “The Other Dark Matter.”

Great writers waxed poetic over “milky seas.” Here’s the science behind the glow.

As long as there are vulnerable populations, a virus will evolve. That’s nature.

How to protect yourself from the din that surrounds you.

We survive noise by transforming it into patterns, like composers create music.

We’re mapping the brain in amazing detail—but our brain can’t understand the picture.

The story of dinosaurs is also the story of capitalism.

A new history of the race to decipher DNA reveals Shakespearean plots of scheming.

The beauty of this breakthrough is serendipity.

What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.

A theory of consciousness can help build a theory of everything.