• Science

    Are They Out There?

    Standing at Ground Zero for UFO Believers

    By D.W. Pasulka  February 8, 2019
    Cancer

    In the Face of Cancer, My One-Sided Deal With God

    By Julie Yip-Williams  February 4, 2019
    The Natural World

    How We Use Stunning Visuals to Tell the Stories of Science

    By Felice C. Frankel  January 31, 2019
    Nuclear Power

    The Climate Crisis Requires Us to Use All the Tools We Have

    By Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist  January 24, 2019
    Affection

    Why Do We Hug Each Other?

    By Haemin Sunim  December 20, 2018
    Hair of the Dog

    Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages

    By Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall  November 20, 2018
    Excerpts

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

    By Marina Benjamin  November 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Wouldn’t It Be Great To Directly Perceive the Warping of Space-Time?

    By Chris Impey  November 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    A Brief History of Sci-Fi’s Love Affair With the Red Planet

    By Mike Ashley  October 24, 2018
    Excerpts

    What Mysteries and Medicine Have in Common

    By Arnold van de Laar  October 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Fossil Wars: On the Battle Between Paleontologists and Amateur Dealers

    By Paige Williams  September 24, 2018
    Excerpts

    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
    Excerpts

    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
    Excerpts

    When English and Computer Code Both Feel Like Foreign Languages

    By David Auerbach  August 31, 2018
    Excerpts

    We Know Much Less About Evolution Than We Thought

    By David Quammen  August 29, 2018
    Excerpts

    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
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