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Science

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Adventures in Insomnia: Sleep Diets, Weird Dreams, and the Singularity

By Marina Benjamin  November 14, 2018
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Wouldn’t It Be Great To Directly Perceive the Warping of Space-Time?

By Chris Impey  November 14, 2018
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A Brief History of Sci-Fi’s Love Affair With the Red Planet

By Mike Ashley  October 24, 2018
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What Mysteries and Medicine Have in Common

By Arnold van de Laar  October 19, 2018
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The Fossil Wars: On the Battle Between Paleontologists and Amateur Dealers

By Paige Williams  September 24, 2018
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The Political Drama That Almost Grounded Project Apollo

By John Logsdon  September 13, 2018
What to Read

Lit Hub’s Fall 2018 Nonfiction Preview: Science & Technology

By Emily Temple  September 7, 2018
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Did Dante Alighieri Suffer From a Sleep Disorder?

By Henry Nicholls  September 7, 2018
Deep Dive

What Kind of Personality Type Was Truman Capote?

By Merve Emre  September 5, 2018
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When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

By David Auerbach  August 31, 2018
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We Know Much Less About Evolution Than We Thought

By David Quammen  August 29, 2018
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Are Human Genes Changing As Fast As Culture and Technology?

By Peter Ward  August 22, 2018
Essay

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

By MH Rowe  August 16, 2018
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What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

By Maryanne Wolf  August 8, 2018
Biography

On the Birth of Princess Margaret and the Rise of Astrology as We Know It

By Craig Brown  August 6, 2018
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What If We Power the Artificial Heart with Plutonium?

By Mimi Swartz  August 3, 2018
Biography

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

By Dawn Raffel  August 3, 2018
Essay

What Future is There for America’s Desert Cities?

By Saritha Ramakrishna  July 25, 2018
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How to Stop the Spread of Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation

By Michael Kinch  July 9, 2018
Essay

I Worked in Biology for 17 Years… Then I Became a Writer

By Grace Dane Mazur  July 6, 2018
Essay

A Lifetime of Reading Oliver Sacks, Before and After My Diagnosis

By Christian Donlan  July 5, 2018
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Where Do Whales Go When They Die?

By Nick Pyenson  June 29, 2018
Essay

Science Brings Us Closer to the Miraculous

By Liese O'Halloran Schwarz  June 26, 2018
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The All-Too Human Cost of Appalachia’s Fracking Boom

By Eliza Griswold  June 19, 2018
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What Are Cows Saying When They Moo?

By Rosamund Young  June 13, 2018
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