Welcome to The Porthole
Short sharp looks at science.
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Longevity Might Be All In Your Head
The biological age of your organs could predict your health—and death
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What Deep Time Can Tell Us About Coral Reefs
Lisa Gardiner on the 3 greatest revelations she had while writing Reefs of Time
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Our Busy Universe
A sliver of space from the Vera Rubin Observatory -
A Hymn Lost for a Millennium
AI helped piece together clay fragments to tell a new story of Babylon -
Art and Science in a Grain of Sand
Filmmaker Mark Levinson on the kinship between disciplines -
Monumental Burial Mounds Rewrite Ancient History
The colossal structures, built by hunter-gatherers, are way older than archaeologists had thought possible -
Lefties Aren’t as Creative as We Thought
In fact, righties may have the edge, contrary to popular belief
