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On Your Birthday, You’re Not Celebrating What You Think

Scientists are trying to study biological aging without defining it, and that’s a problem.

November 7, 2016

How Water Can Identify Murder Victims and Fake Scotch

These maps pinpoint an object’s origins by the isotope ratio in the water.

November 2, 2016

To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome

This mental disorder gives us a unique insight into the digital age.

October 27, 2016

How to Fake It So No One Notices

Seek balance in all things—including subterfuge.

October 27, 2016

The Astrophysicists Who Faked It

The inside story of the gravitational wave signal injection.

This Doesn’t Sound Tasty

How moths bat away their predators.

October 27, 2016

Natural Selection in an Outbreak

Every time a disease spreads, it has another chance to mutate.

October 25, 2016

Feel Different: Breaking Your Cell Phone’s Hold

Unreliable rewards trap us into addictive cell phone use, but they can also get us out.

The Martians Are Coming—and They’re Human

How settling Mars could create a new human species.

October 21, 2016

The Trouble with Milk

Only 1 in 3 people have evolved tolerance to lactose.

October 13, 2016

Only Street Dogs Are Real Dogs

Purebreds don’t satisfy the biological definition of a species.