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The Sinkhole Hunters

In sprawling Florida, one group of geologists is never short on business.

April 16, 2015

Five Short Stories About the Life and Times of Ideas

A complexity theorist explores how science and culture co-evolve.

April 16, 2015

PTSD: The Wound That Never Heals

Coming back to life after losing my first child.

April 13, 2015

The Hidden Ocean Patch That Broke Climate Records

Why the recent global warming hiatus may have ended.

April 13, 2015

The Best Little Bar in Manhattan

An experiment in belief versus bourbon.

April 3, 2015

Fear in the Cockpit

The tragic plane crash in Taipei was the result of mechanical and psychological failures.

April 2, 2015

Yes, You Can Catch Insanity

A controversial disease revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness.

How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union

Condemned as a capitalist tool, the computer would help expose the USSR’s weakness.

April 2, 2015

The Executioner We Can’t Live Without

You’re dead meat without special molecules that kill rotten proteins.

March 26, 2015

The Amazing, Autotuning Sandpile

A simple mathematical model of a sandpile shows remarkably complex behavior.

March 26, 2015

The Fly King Speaks

Meet Fredrik Sjöberg, author of the sleeper hit, The Fly Trap.

March 12, 2015

The Impossible Physiology of the Free Diver

The amazing underwater athletes are rewriting the science of the body.

March 4, 2015