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What’s Wrong with Bananas

How industrial agriculture stole sex from our most important fresh fruit crop.

October 31, 2018

The Rise of Cancer Immunotherapy

How Jim Allison saved a whole world.

October 24, 2018

Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew

When zoologists tried to change the words for bat and shrew, the Führer was not amused.

October 17, 2018

This Is Urban Wildlife Biology

Minks in TV graveyards, and other stories of Chicago’s hidden animals.

October 3, 2018

A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story

From trauma to arrhythmia, and back again.

September 12, 2018

The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting

How fMRI has become an ethical obligation.

September 5, 2018

How Genes Refract Chance

The geneticist Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the influence of modern genetics on our ideas of chance and fate.

August 9, 2018