Communication
How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication
What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.
The Trouble With “The Big Bang”
A rash of recent articles illustrates a longstanding confusion over the famous term.
The Case for Popularizing Ocean Science
Why Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Carlie Wiener thinks octopuses and science fiction matter to ocean conservation.
A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan
In Contact, the great science advocate posed a religious question about the cosmos.
How Do We Get People Who Believe in Pseudoscience to Trust Science?
It’s time to ask a scientist.
Mysteries Are to Be Embraced, But Also to Be Solved
Science doesn’t rob the world of wonder. It amplifies it.
A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture
Imani Black is working to bring people of color into marine conservation and production.
We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET
Extraterrestrials could take our intergalactic message in entirely the wrong way.
How Putin’s War Is Sinking Climate Science
An American journalist leaves Russia as war breaks up the international collaboration key to climate research in the Arctic.
The Ocean Explorer Who Wants Us to Reconnect with Nature
High 5 to Barbara Veiga: activist, photographer, and filmmaker.