• Science

    Ecology

    The Crisis Beneath Our Feet:
    On the Destruction of Soil

    By Isabella Tree  October 3, 2019
    AI

    Can Fiction Introduce Empathy Into AI? Do We Want It To?

    By Flynn Coleman  October 3, 2019
    Transhumanism

    Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

    By Literary Hub  October 1, 2019
    Economics

    Are Civilization and Income Inequality Inextricably Intertwined?

    By Christopher Ryan  October 1, 2019
    Physics

    If You Existed in Multiple Universes, How Would You Act In This One?

    By Sean Carroll  September 23, 2019
    Animals

    The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

    By Michael S. A. Graziano  September 23, 2019
    Animals

    Animals Are Basically… Millennials?

    By Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers  September 20, 2019
    Hysteria

    In Search of Hysteria: The Man Who Thought He Could Define Madness

    By Allan H. Ropper and Brian Burrell  September 20, 2019
    Animals

    Vanishing Bees Should Not Be the New Normal

    By Brigit Strawbridge Howard  September 20, 2019
    Animals

    Can Humans Read Animals’ Minds?

    By Lars Svendsen  September 19, 2019
    The Internet

    What Would Happen If the World Lost the Internet?

    By Mike Pearl  September 18, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    Searching for Women’s Voices in the Harshest Landscape on Earth

    By Elizabeth Rush  September 16, 2019
    Genetics

    Will It Ever Be Ethical for Athletes to Edit Their Genes?

    By Françoise Baylis  September 16, 2019
    Animals

    How Can You Know What Your Dog
    is Really Feeling?

    By Alexandra Horowitz  September 12, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

    By Natalie Adler  September 11, 2019
    Astronomy

    The Humble Origins of the Man Who Discovered Dark Matter

    By John Johnson, Jr.  September 11, 2019
    Psychology

    Brief Interviews with Imaginary Friends (and the Kids Who
    Love Them)

    By J. Bradley Wigger  September 9, 2019
    Healthcare

    A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money

    By Mike Magee  September 5, 2019
    Drugs

    Understanding the American Drug Crisis: A Reading List

    By Ben Westhoff  September 3, 2019
    Neuroscience

    On the Brain: We’re Not As Hardwired As We Think

    By Gina Rippon  August 30, 2019
    Capitalism

    What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

    By Terrence Holt  August 29, 2019
    The Hub

    A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 28, 2019
    Drugs

    The Deafening Silence of a Pharmaceutical Company in the Face of the Opioid Crisis

    By John Halpern and David Blistein  August 28, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Science

    By Literary Hub  August 23, 2019
    Sociology

    How, Exactly, Did We Come Up with What Counts As ‘Normal’?

    By Jonathan Mooney  August 16, 2019
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