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In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.

The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.

Competition in Cambrian seas helped cause an explosion in diversity.

Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.

Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.

Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.

Moles don’t see, whales can’t smell, and snakes can’t hear a thing.

We can experience nothingness, but does it actually exist?

A child asks, and war answers.

“I did not have to believe anything irrational about the universe.”

How the null hypothesis keeps the hairy hominid alive.

From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics.