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Why your wardrobe is wine-hued this year.

A mother wonders if we are all born with synesthesia.

Food color does more than guide us—it changes the experience of taste.

Our own oasis of life in the cosmos is blue, but will others be?

A Viking scientist’s quest to conquer disease.

What you should know about your body’s biggest organ.

The surprising performance and physics of the fish kick.

Why do so many corpses found in Europe’s peat bogs show signs of violent death?

How Earth’s seas get around.

There are two kinds of extraterrestrial life with very different implications.

NASA is scheduled to probe the Jovian moon in 2023.

We’ve been looking for life on Earth-like planets. Will Europa teach us better?