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Bill Schutt Considers the Perfect Cheesy Horror Movie Creature

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The Moment When a Brain Surgeon Sees the Most Terrifying Diagnosis in Medicine

The Moment When a Brain Surgeon Sees the Most Terrifying Diagnosis in Medicine

Theodore H. Schwartz Shares the Story of a Patient with GBM, the Supervillain of Malignant Tumors

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Do Dolphins Give Each Other... Names?

Do Dolphins Give Each Other... Names?

Arik Kershenbaum on What It Means When Dolphins Whistle To Each Other

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Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Edward Dolnick on Rigorous Yet Humorously Misguided Scientific Inquiry in the 17th and 18th Centuries

By Edward Dolnick | August 8, 2024

Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

Rob Jackson Suggests Ways Businesses, Scientists and Governments Can Work Together to Clean the Atmosphere

By Rob Jackson | August 5, 2024

Atomic Fallacy: Why Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

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M.V. Ramana Debunks Some Common Arguments About Energy In an Era of Ecological Emergency

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Finding the Glow Within: What Biology and Fiction Writing Have In Common

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Janie Kim on the Pursuit of Open-Ended Questions in Science and Literature

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John Long on the Hunting Tactics of One of Nature's Most Feared Predators

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How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star

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Howard Markel on the Debate That Forever Transformed Our Understanding of the Natural World

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How Game Theory Can Help Organ Donors Find Their Match

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Kelly Clancy on the Medical Possibilities of Mathematically-Influenced Altruism

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How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language

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Enter the Butterfly: What Science Can Reveal About Our Own Fragile Self-Conceptions

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