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The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

Let’s stop hustling as if the world is running toward disorder.

July 1, 2020

Uncovering the Spark of Life

What finding life on Mars could tell us about our own origins.

The Mystery of the Dark Asteroid That Scorched Russia

A new theory emerges to explain the enigmatic Tunguska Event.

June 24, 2020

The Trouble with Counting Alien Civilizations

Life on Earth is a sketchy guide to intelligent life in the cosmos.

June 24, 2020

Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest

A story for my grandchildren about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate.

June 24, 2020

T. Rex Was a Slacker

A natural wonder of the big theropod was how it conserved energy.

June 17, 2020

The Power of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

June 17, 2020

A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything

Karl Friston takes us on a safari of his free-energy principle.

June 10, 2020

Could an AI Be Immortal?

Data is under attack and uploads his brain. Does he survive?

June 10, 2020

The Road Less Traveled to Fusion Energy

This privateer is developing a way to power the world with water and borax.

June 3, 2020

Mice on Acid

To get a legal hallucinogen to market, rodents need to take the first trip.

May 27, 2020

No Country for Old People

The COVID-19 death rate in Sweden has exposed worldwide bias against the elderly.

May 27, 2020