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How Necking Shaped the Giraffe

The private life of the African giant offers a remarkable view on evolution.

May 19, 2015

How the Biggest Fabricator in Science Got Caught

Yoshitaka Fujii falsified 183 papers before statistics exposed him.

The Trouble With Scientists

How one psychologist is tackling human biases in science.

May 8, 2015

The Data That Threatened to Break Physics

What does a rational scientist do with an impossible result?

May 6, 2015

The Admiral of the String Theory Wars

After a decade, Peter Woit still thinks string theory is a gory mess.

May 4, 2015

Meet the 17-Year-Old, Award-Winning, Rube Goldberg Parts Manufacturer

Tommy George and the Agents of SHIELD shot a Nerf ball and erased a whiteboard.

April 29, 2015

The Bugs in Our Mindware

Many obstacles lie on the path to rational thought.

April 29, 2015

The Bugs in Our Mindware

Many obstacles lie on the path to rational thought.

April 29, 2015

Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body

From our knees to our eyeballs, our bodies are full of hack solutions.

April 29, 2015

How to Unlearn a Disease

Medicine’s latest cure is forgetting you’re sick.

April 24, 2015

Why the Flash Crash Really Matters

The debate about what caused the 2010 stock market Flash Crash is missing the point.

The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze

Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.

April 21, 2015