• Science

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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
    Excerpts

    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
    Excerpts

    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
    Excerpts

    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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    It Is Highly Unlikely That Any of This Exists: On the Origins of the Universe

    By Oren Harman  June 13, 2018
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    The False Nobility of Space Billionaires

    By Michael Dulaney  June 6, 2018
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