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How Nostalgia Made America Great Again

When the present looks bleak, we reach for a rose-tinted past.

April 6, 2017

Why Men Don’t Live as Long as Women

It’s the testosterone, don’t you know.

March 31, 2017

Is Matter Conscious?

Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics.

March 31, 2017

What My Stroke Taught Me

The surprising, quiet nourishment of losing my internal monologue.

March 31, 2017

The Spiritual, Reductionist Consciousness of Christof Koch

What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him.

March 31, 2017

The Woman Who Gave Us the Science of Normal Life

Before Rachel Carson there was Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT’s first female student.

March 28, 2017

Why You Feel the Urge to Jump

The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place.

March 28, 2017

Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too

Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.

March 28, 2017

Meet Seven Extraordinary Women Scientists

A neuroscientist turned designer has created a unique celebration of women’s history month.

Survival of the Friendliest

It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break.

March 17, 2017

Can Dark Energy Kill Galaxies?

The surprising importance of a dark-energy selection effect.

March 17, 2017

What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime

Stuck in his research, a cosmologist finds a hint in an intricate drawing.

March 10, 2017