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How Aging Research Is Changing Our Lives

An interview with Eric Verdin, CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

June 22, 2017

Why New York Is Just an Average City

Understanding any city requires understanding how all cities scale.

June 22, 2017

How to Obfuscate

What misinformation on Twitter and radar have in common.

New York Under Water

Your future commute to work is on a boat.

Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary

Science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe.

June 19, 2017

What Is Space?

It’s not what you think.

Why Your Brain Hates Other People

And how to make it think differently.

June 16, 2017

Does Having Kids Make Mothers Age Faster?

Evidence is stacking up on both sides of an age-old debate.

June 12, 2017

When Neurology Becomes Theology

A neurologist’s perspective on research into consciousness.

June 8, 2017

The Multiverse of 1686

Speculation on multiple universes goes back farther than you might think.

The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World

Near-miss math provides exact representations of almost-right answers.

June 2, 2017

The Crisis of the Multiverse

In an infinite multiverse, physics loses its ability to make predictions.

June 2, 2017