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Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Devin Reese

Zoology

Rare Sperm Whale Birth Caught on Video

Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jake Currie

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The Mystery of the Legless Lizards of Taiwan

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Here’s Why Mosquitoes Won’t Leave You Alone

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The Parasite That Garbles the Mating Calls of Male Tree Frogs

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The Science Is in: No One Likes Your Cockapoo

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Paleontology

New Ape Fossil Could Shift Our Evolutionary Origins Northward

Environment

The Science Behind Being One of a Kind

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Psychology

When Fake Supplements Work

Iyad Rahwan is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans &amp; Machines.

Iyad Rahwan

Azim Shariff is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology.

Azim Shariff

Jean-François Bonnefon is a CNRS research director, with affiliations to the Toulouse School of Economics, where he chairs the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; the Toulouse School of Management; the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse of which he is the director; and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute where he is chair of moral artificial intelligence.

Jean-François Bonnefon

Arts

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

<a href="https://kccole.com/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KC Cole</a> is the author of eight nonfiction books, most recently Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up. She is senior senior correspondent at Wired magazine, teaches in the honors program at the University of Washington, and has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines.

KC Cole

Philosophy

A Light in the Dark: Finding the Good in the Natural World

Mikael Angelo Francisco is a science journalist and illustrator from the Philippines who enjoys writing about paleontology, biodiversity, environment conservation, and science in pop culture. He has written and edited books about media literacy, Filipino scientists, and science trivia.

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