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How the lucrative market could spark conservation.

The key to preventing crashes is to know what you don’t know.

They sense the buzzing sounds of pollinators, the vibrations of the wind.

An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics. I think it’s wrong. But I may be too.

By imitating early conditions of Earth in the lab, scientists gain new insight into the origin of life.

The author on writing her book, Our Moon, about the power of our satellite to guide evolution and human curiosity.

Did a colossal collision with a doomed planet give us our satellite?

My favorite readings for my students.

The aurora sizzles with sound, and we can hear it on Earth.

Probing our sense of mystery and wonder.

What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.

There are five times as many beetle species as fish, reptile, bird, amphibian, and mammal species combined.