• Science

    The Natural World

    A Volatile Proposition: Exploring Life Inside Earth’s Most Extreme Environments

    Karen G. Lloyd Reflects on a Risky Journey Into the Crater of Costa Rica’s Poás Volcano

     
    By Karen G. Lloyd  May 16, 2025
    Immortality

    Defeating Death: On the Motivations and Methods of People Who Want to Live Forever

    By Amy Larocca  May 14, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2025
    Nature

    On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

    By M.D. Usher  May 13, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    The Human Body

    It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called

    By Henry Abbott  May 7, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Food Memoirs

    Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

    By Katie Goh  May 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 5, 2025
    Technology

    From MLMs to Nuclear War:
    10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2025
    History of Science

    When Bees Discover the Scientists Who Dedicated Their Lives to Studying Them

    From Peter Kuper’s Illustrated Natural History, “Insectopolis”

    By Peter Kuper  May 16, 2025
    Biology

    Science in America is Going Dark:
    On Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 25, 2025
    Language

    On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages

    By Lorna Gibb  April 23, 2025
    Psychedelics

    The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

    By Susannah Cahalan  April 23, 2025
    Animals

    What Makes the Octopus So Worthy of Our Eternal Fascination

    Drew Harvell Explores the Otherworldly Oceanic Lives of Cephalopods

    By Drew Harvell  April 22, 2025
    The Natural World

    The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

    By Thor Hanson  April 3, 2025
    Scientific Discovery

    The Eureka Moment: How Calculated Risk-Taking Can Lead to Scientific Innovation

    By Alex Hutchinson  April 2, 2025
    Genetics

    What the Science of Gene Inheritance Reveals About the Humans Behind It

    By Dalton Conley  April 2, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

    Featuring Work by Faiz Siddiqui, Heather Christle, Ada Limón, and More

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
    Birds

    What the Mysterious Mating Habits of an Enigmatic Species Reveal About the Secrets of Evolution

    By Matt Ridley  March 24, 2025
    Parenting

    Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

    By Alex Bollen  March 20, 2025
    Natural History

    Dissolving Certainties: On Reading the Complex Story of Carbon in Our World

    By Paul Hawken  March 18, 2025
    The Hub

    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    By Jonny Diamond  March 4, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    Blindness

    An Invisibility Cloak of the Self: Jane Tara on Being Told She Was Going Blind in Her Forties

    By Jane Tara  February 26, 2025
    Plagues

    How London’s Great Plague Planted the Seeds For Future Scientific Advancements

    By Thomas Levenson  April 30, 2025
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