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How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels

How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels

Michael Grunwald on the Cascading Impact of Ethanol Production on Climate Change

By Michael Grunwald | July 21, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | July 18, 2025

Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Andrew R. Gallimore on the Alien Power of a Revolutionary Drug

By Andrew R. Gallimore | July 16, 2025

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Mickie Meinhardt Profiles the Author of “On Muscle,” on a Surfboard

By Mickie Meinhardt | July 16, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | July 11, 2025

Why Field Research Remains an Essential Part of Scientific Inquiry and Inclusion

Why Field Research Remains an Essential Part of Scientific Inquiry and Inclusion

Sarah Boon on the Trailblazing 19th-Century Women Who Fed Her Passion For the Natural World

By Sarah Boon | June 25, 2025

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Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

By Robert P. Baird | June 16, 2025

What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

By Matthew Gavin Frank | June 12, 2025

Dad Books: a flowchart.

Dad Books: a flowchart.

A Father's Day flowchart.

By Brittany Allen | June 11, 2025

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

Alec Nevala-Lee on the Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist's Experimental Approach to Scientific Inquiry

By Alec Nevala-Lee | June 11, 2025

What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

Tim Weed Recommends Robert Hazen, Marcia Bjornerud, Thomas Halliday and More

By Tim Weed | June 4, 2025

A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

"If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land."

By Robin Wall Kimmerer | June 2, 2025

In Praise of the Inherent Queerness of Nature

In Praise of the Inherent Queerness of Nature

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian Asks Us to Consider the Possibilities of a More Egalitarian Relationship With the Natural World

By Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian | May 28, 2025

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

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

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

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

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