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Ruby Todd Considers the Age-Old Individual and Collective Experience of Watching the Skies

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Finding the Glow Within: What Biology and Fiction Writing Have In Common

Finding the Glow Within: What Biology and Fiction Writing Have In Common

Janie Kim on the Pursuit of Open-Ended Questions in Science and Literature

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How White Sharks Became the Serial Killers of the Sea

How White Sharks Became the Serial Killers of the Sea

John Long on the Hunting Tactics of One of Nature's Most Feared Predators

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How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star

How Charles Darwin Became a 19th-Century Scientific Rock Star

Howard Markel on the Debate That Forever Transformed Our Understanding of the Natural World

By Howard Markel | June 25, 2024

How Game Theory Can Help Organ Donors Find Their Match

How Game Theory Can Help Organ Donors Find Their Match

Kelly Clancy on the Medical Possibilities of Mathematically-Influenced Altruism

By Kelly Clancy | June 24, 2024

How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language

How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language

Steven Mithen on the Science of Language Acquisition in Early Childhood

By Steven Mithen | June 20, 2024

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Rolling the Dice: What Gambling Can Teach Us About Probability

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Solving the Mystery of the Dancing Honey Bees

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Paternal Instinct: Why Men Go Gaga Over Babies, Too

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Floral Consciousness: Zoë Schlanger on What the Intelligence of Plants Can Teach Us About Ourselves

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