issue_5

Dr. Hans Reiter achieved the one thing most likely to keep a physician’s name in textbooks forever: He got an illness named after him. While working as a medic in the German army in World War I, he once treated a case of simultaneous inflammation in the joints, eyes, and urethra. This became known as […]

Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics.

Discover genes that unite life on earth.

The search for our linguistic DNA.

Why do things go viral, and should we care?

Fame drags you down.

Tales of monsters invading Japan are a longstanding tradition, usually involving menacing kaiju—literally “strange creatures”—rising from the sea to wreak havoc on a Japanese city. At this very moment, the country is engaged in just such a war, with an entire army of invasive creatures, but they’re both less fearsome and more adorable than Godzilla […]

If we are to learn how to die, we need teachers.

Does the Fame Virus plague our youth, and is multimedia to blame?

In China, famous science pays like nowhere else.