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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

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

From Alison Bashford's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

By Alison Bashford | September 28, 2023

How <em>Oppenheimer</em> Fails to Unpack the Craft at the Core of Its Drama

How Oppenheimer Fails to Unpack the Craft at the Core of Its Drama

“When it comes to STEM in film, there can be drama in the minutiae.”

By Claire Tuna | September 28, 2023

“One of the Single Most Expensive Substances on the Planet”: The Insulin Crisis of the 21st Century

“One of the Single Most Expensive Substances on the Planet”: The Insulin Crisis of the 21st Century

Stuart Bradwel on the Tragic Consequences of Unethical Profiteering

By Stuart Bradwel | September 25, 2023

What Makes Language Human?

What Makes Language Human?

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

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Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT

By Naomi S. Baron | September 12, 2023

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

By Catherine Buni | September 11, 2023

How Complex Math and Human Innovation Created the Calculator

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

How the Banana Came To Be—And How It Could Disappear

How the Banana Came To Be—And How It Could Disappear

Emily Monosson on the History, Evolution, and Biological Enemies of a Staple Fruit

By Emily Monosson | August 21, 2023

Steve Nicholls Explores the Endearing Side of a Much-Maligned Pest

By Steve Nicholls | August 18, 2023

Matthew Moynihan on the Promises of Fusion

Matthew Moynihan on the Promises of Fusion

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 17, 2023

The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

"I learned how to tell a story from the first and greatest storyteller of all."

By Mindy Mejia | August 1, 2023

How the Bush Administration Hid the Dangers Posed by Climate Change

How the Bush Administration Hid the Dangers Posed by Climate Change

David Lipsky on the Manipulation of Language Behind Climate Change Denialism

By David Lipsky | July 31, 2023

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