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UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?

UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?

Adam Frank on Interstellar Travel, Technology from Sci-Fi, and the Physics of Both

By Adam Frank | October 24, 2023

What is it Really Like Inside a Sensory Deprivation Tank?

What is it Really Like Inside a Sensory Deprivation Tank?

"I am withholding the weight of my body. I am trying to forget the pressure of being."

By Athena Dixon | October 19, 2023

You Had Me At Meow: On the Hidden Language of Cats

You Had Me At Meow: On the Hidden Language of Cats

Scientist Sarah Brown Confirms That Your Cat Really Is Talking To You

By Sarah Brown | October 18, 2023

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

“I understand now that this local ‘soap cooker lady’ was the first biochemist I ever met.”

By Katalin Karikó | October 12, 2023

The World's Most Beautiful Bird Lives in Yellowstone National Park

The World's Most Beautiful Bird Lives in Yellowstone National Park

Behold the Peregrine Falcon

By Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker, Katharine E. Duffy and David Haines | October 12, 2023

The Italian Monk Who Foresaw Europe's Obsession With Eugenics

The Italian Monk Who Foresaw Europe's Obsession With Eugenics

From Mackenzie Cooley's Cundill Prize-Nominated The Perfection of Nature

By Mackenzie Cooley | October 3, 2023

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Caleb Everett on Syntax and Recursion

By Caleb Everett | September 21, 2023

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

First Lady of Space: How Sally Ride Became A Household Name Overnight

Loren Grush on the Media Circus Surrounding America's First Women Astronauts

By Loren Grush | September 14, 2023

Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT

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Naomi S. Baron on the Detrimental Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Literacy and Cognition

By Naomi S. Baron | September 12, 2023

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

On Breaking the Cycle of Individual and Collective Dehumanization

By Catherine Buni | September 11, 2023

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

Keith Houston on the People, Technology, and Equations Behind a Modern Mathematical Convenience

By Keith Houston | August 31, 2023

How a Directionless Path Can Reveal Science's Most Closely-Guarded Secrets

How a Directionless Path Can Reveal Science's Most Closely-Guarded Secrets

Ben Stanger on the Messy, Meandering Business of Scientific Discovery

By Ben Stanger | August 22, 2023

The Female Journalist Who Helped Create the Field of Science Reporting

The Female Journalist Who Helped Create the Field of Science Reporting

Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette on Jane Stafford, Gender in Journalism, and the Pioneering Science Service Organization

By Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette | August 22, 2023

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