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Immunity Is a Matter of Timing

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What the Webb Telescope Really Showed Us About the Cosmos' Beginning

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The Dwarf Planet on Our Doorstep

Is There Any Place for Race in Medicine?

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What Does ChatGPT Know About Science?

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Cultivating Joy in Science - Nautilus

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The Ghostwriter - Nautilus

What Is a Neutron Star?

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Why Science Needs Diversity - Nautilus

The Curse of the Ship of Gold

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Can AI Help Us Be Better People? - Nautilus

Narcoleptic Naps Are a Creative Sweet Spot - Nautilus

The Pregnant Scientist Who Raced Against Death to Transform Physics

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Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another - Nautilus

The Universal Clock of Aging - Nautilus

When Will Fusion Energy Light Our Homes? - Nautilus

Encouraging Conservation Through Communication - Nautilus

Mobile Genes From the Mother Shape the Baby’s Microbiome - Nautilus

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What Is Our Universe Expanding Into? - Nautilus

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Mother Nature’s 7 Lessons for a Safer World - Nautilus

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The Ecological Catastrophe You’ve Never Heard Of - Nautilus

Should People Live on the Moon? - Nautilus

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The Brain Uses Calculus to Control Fast Movements - Nautilus

The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence - Nautilus

To the Passionate Youth: Why Wait? - Nautilus

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The Human Story at the Heart of Science

The Great Forgetting

The Ancient Wisdom Stored in Trees

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Are We Doctors or Data Workers?

The Oceanic Fallout of Deep-Sea Mining

This Drug Can Mend a Broken Heart

The Human Family Tree, It Turns Out, Is Complicated

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Don’t Treat Your Life as a Project

Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?

Don't Worry If Your Kids Aren't Polite to Alexa

Can Tripping Save the Planet?

The Rhythm of Sculpture

Why Do People Believe in Ghost Stories?

Clicking with Your Kin

Why We Need Muck to Fight Rising Sea Levels

How Can We Spot Fake Product Reviews?

Life Is Hard. And That’s Good.

Where Have All the Snow Crabs Gone?

AI Is Terrible at Detecting Misinformation. It Doesn’t Have to Be.

Meet the Daring Free-Diver Who Talks to Sperm Whales

The Mystery of the Blue Whale Songs

Is COVID-19 Becoming Less Polarizing?

Making Sense of Big Ocean Data

Can Organoids Take Us into a New Era of Medicine?

What the Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells in My Lab Are Telling Me

The Invasion of the Super Insects

Coral Restoration Goes Big

Does Consuming Cannabis Boost Creativity?

Is AI Art Really Art?

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty

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Do Political Ads Influence Voting Behavior?

Why Your Brain Isn't Into the Future

The Cormac McCarthy I Know

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The Fine Line Between Life and Not Life

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We’ve Got News for You About Supercharging Your Brain

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Why Is That Funny?

Why These Children Fell into Endless Sleep

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To Stop Illegal Fishing, Send a Seabird

What We Really Are Is an Agglomeration of Cells

A New Doorway to the Brain

The Chess Cheat in the 21st Century

Why Are People Biased Against New Technology?

That Snapper You’re Eating Might Be 80 Years Old

A Universal Cancer Treatment?

They Probed Quantum Entanglement While Everyone Shrugged

I Didn’t Know My Mind Was So Strange Until I Started Listening to It

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Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

The Afterlife Is in Our Heads

Why Should We Delay Gratification?

How We Remember Last Weekend

What Is Misinformation Doing to Us?

Should Social Psychologists Experiment with Psychedelics?

What Can Night-Shift Workers Do to Feel Better?

Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way

Existential Comfort Without God

A Step-by-Step Guide to Our Solar System’s Demise

Building the Blue Economy

How Shannon Entropy Imposes Fundamental Limits on Communication

The Real Magic of Rituals

The Trouble With “The Big Bang”

Targeting Cancer’s Achilles Heel

The Wizards of Mind Control

What Do Dolphins Talk About?

The Big Thinker

The Phantasmagoria of the First Hand-Painted Films

The Worth of an Angry God

Are All Brains Good at Math?

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

To Save the Deep Ocean, We Should Mine the Moon

Best Screenplay Goes to the Algorithms

It’s High Time to Protect Our High Seas

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The Electromagnetic Force of Fridge Magnets

A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved

Cancer’s Got a Lot of Nerve

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Another Path to Intelligence

We Only Think We Flush It Away

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

Humans Are Overzealous Whale Morticians

We Might Already Speak the Same Language As ET

The Evolutionary Mystery of Menopause

Secret Life of a Full-Time Cyborg

Computer Science Proof Unveils Unexpected Form of Entanglement

How Your Brain Fills in the Blanks with Experience

How Darkness Can Illuminate the Insect Apocalypse

Why We Need to Study Nothing

What Makes Music Special to Us?

Snorkeling in Their Own Plastic

The Witness Is a Whale

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After 100 Years of Research, Autism Remains a Puzzle

Termination of Pregnancy Has Always Been Part of Women’s Health

Swimming in Noise

How the Brain Allows the Deaf to Experience Music

How Surprising Connections Can Save the Ocean

Embryo Cells Set Patterns for Growth by Pushing and Pulling

The Case for Popularizing Ocean Science

The High Price of Cheap Shrimp

How to Outwit Evolution

Automatic for the Oceans

The Disneyfication of Atomic Power

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth

A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan

Overthrowing the Patriarchy Through Ecstatic Sex

Land of Extremes: Poetry of the Sonoran Desert

Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?

My Personal Quest to Study Supernovae on Mars

How Are the Bees?

Feeling Stressed? Read a Poem

Don’t Give Up on Facts

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What Oceanographers Can Learn From Their Animal Colleagues

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A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture

What Made Early Humans Smart

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The Profound Potential of Elon Musk’s New Rocket

Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity

The Giraffe Neck Evolved for Sexual Combat

Who Are the Scientists Here?

Gravitational Waves Continue to Astound

Race Against Time

The Secrets of the Blind Salamander

Mysteries Are to Be Embraced, But Also to Be Solved

Unlocking Mom’s Brain

Life’s First Peptides May Have Grown on RNA Strands

To Protect Coral Reefs, Protect Fishes and Birds

The Race to Explore the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

Portrait of the Human as a Young Hominin

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Should Marine Species Own the High Seas?

Planets Are Born from Dust Trap Rings

Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels

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No Two Human Brains Are Alike

The Oceans Are Teeming with Unknown Species

Into the Blue

What Is Time?

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse in Science

How Much Is the Ocean Worth?

My Wild Escape Into the Parrot Protection Program

We Were Here

We Better Think Twice About What We Say to ET

How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are Different Now)

“I Have to Admit, I Have a Very Low Opinion of Human Beings”

The Science of Star Wars Weaponry

He Fast-Forwarded Evolution into the Future

Toxic but Fascinating

We’re More of Ourselves When We’re in Tune with Others

What Lurks in a Drowned Forest in Alabama?

Going Deep With Hadal Zone Expert Alan Jamieson

A Viral Twitter Thread Reawakens the Dark History of Anthropology

The Return of New York Harbor’s Oysters

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What Regret Tells Us

Researchers Gain New Understanding From Simple AI

As Creation Stories Go, the Big Bang Is a Good One

Narratively: The Revival of a Bloodthirsty Obsession

The Machiavellians of the Animal Kingdom

Cancer Shouldn’t Pose a Threat to Our Lives. We Should Find It First

A Voice for Minorities in Aquaculture

Animals Feel What’s Right and Wrong, Too

The Power of Narrative

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I Am Not a Machine. Yes You Are.

The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible

Neuroscience Gets in the Way of Appreciating Art

The Race to Protect Sweet Corn

An Arctic Early Warning System?

The Genius of Fishing with Tidal Weirs

Five Things We Still Don’t Know About Water

Everyday Noises Are Making Our Brains Noisier

Are Crabs Truly Crabby?

What Merpeople Say About Us

That Is Not How Your Brain Works

The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing

A Conversation with “America’s Doctor” about Funding Research

I Had a Postpartum Mental Breakdown—and Was Convinced I Was Dead

Why I Couldn’t Get Over My Brother’s Death

Fish in the 21st Century: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful

Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Multiverse

If Bugs Are Sentient, Should We Eat Them?

Can Cancer Be Treated by Changing Its Cells?

We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance

Robots Show Us Who We Are

The Portentous Comeback of Humpback Whales

The Natural Harmony of Faces

Math’s “Oldest Problem Ever” Gets a New Answer

How Putin’s War Is Sinking Climate Science

Comets Are More Dangerous Than We Thought

The Art of Ocean Science

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The Real Impact of Meteorites on Earth

Painkillers That Don’t Kill

Life Inside a Digital World for Chronically Ill Teens

For This Artist, the Sea Is a Never-Ending Story

How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter

Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall

I Just Want to Know What I’m Made Of

Celebrating Women Scientists

Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?

Four Years On, New Experiment Sees No Sign of “Cosmic Dawn”

Even Worms Feel Pain

Deepfake Luke Skywalker Should Scare Us

The Intelligent Life of Droids

The Ecology of Good Weed

Why Humans Wage War

The Uncanny Valley of Xenobots

A Whaleship Full of Cannibals (Who Happen to Be My Family)

Are Digital Cameras Changing the Nature of Movies?

My Quantum Leap

AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware

We’re Killing Ourselves with Work

The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking

The Dueling Weathermen of the 1800s

Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness

AI Is Helping Scientists Explain the Brain

The Bias in the Machine

The Moon Is Underrated

Love Is Biological Bribery

An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques

Are Algorithms Building the New Infrastructure of Racism?

Imaginary Numbers Are Reality

How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality

Why We Should Explore the Hottest Places in the Ocean

The Ocean Explorer Who Wants Us to Reconnect with Nature

Novak Djokovic and the Healing Water Crystals

I Feel, Therefore I Am

What’s So Hard About Understanding Consciousness?

Are Kids Ready for Virtual Reality?

Can Training Help People Un-learn a Lifetime of Racial Bias?

The Race Problem in Breast Cancer Screening

I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem

Can We Prove the World Isn’t a Simulation?

The Little Miracles in the Invisible World of Plankton

The Simulated World According to David Chalmers

AI Is Already Making Moral Choices for Us. Now What?

The Problem with Modern Romance Is Too Much Choice

Plants Fight for Their Lives

My Out-of-Body Experience

The Wild World of Threats

How the Elwha River Was Saved

The Reinvention of Black

Lessons for a Young Scientist

The Worrisome Rise of NFTs

The Attack of Zombie Science

What Makes Music Universal

An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery

You Can Save More Animals by Donating $100 Than Going Vegan

Readers Love Curious George. I Fell in Love with the Author’s Astronomy Books.

E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way

What Makes Group Decisions Go Wrong. And Right.

The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations

Are You Yoda or Darth Vader?

The Incredible Fig

The Trouble with Brain Scans

The Octopus Teacher's Student

The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

He Did Right by Animals. And Didn’t Take Bull from Anyone.

The Man Who Seduced the World with Whale Songs

Literature Should Be Taught Like Science

The Beloved Mesolithic Girl

Life Always Wins. Follow Me

The Problem with “Smart” New Years’ Goals

Where Aliens Could Be Watching Us

We Are Beast Machines

Planets Are Born from Dust Trap Rings

The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

For Kids, Learning Is Moving

Building the Perfect Painkiller

The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes

Is Santa a God?

Seeing the Big Picture: Moving From One Molecule to Many

Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time

Ignorance: What we don't know about pain

A Close Encounter with a Flame-Bright Egyptian Vulture

We Discovered a Rogues’ Gallery of Monster-Sized Gas Giants

He Did Right by Animals. And Didn’t Take Bull from Anyone.

The Beloved Mesolithic Girl

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When the Heavens Stopped Being Perfect

The End of Time

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Can You Die From a Broken Heart?

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Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex?

The King Who Ordered a Quarantine to Flatten the Curve 4,000 Years Ago

Torn Muscle? Hold the Drugs or Surgery—Massage May Be the Best Medicine

NASA is on the Cusp of a New Era

All the Biomass on Earth

When the Earth Had Two Moons

AI Researchers Fight Noise by Turning to Biology

NASA is on the Cusp of a New Era

Why AI Needs a Genome

All the Biomass on Earth

Quantum Simulators Create a Totally New Phase of Matter

The Safety Belt of Our Solar System

Fantastic Beasts Brought to Life by the Wind

Triggering the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

The Sultan of Spatter

What movie does the best job with science?

How Speeding up Science Aided the Fight Against COVID-19

Give the Gift of Science History: Songs of the Humpback Whale and "Among Whales"

What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood

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A Lab of Her Own

What Impossible Meant to Richard Feynman

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Fantastic Beasts Brought to Life by the Wind

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What You’re Doing Right Now Is Proof of Quantum Theory

Auction: Einstein's Relativity

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When Science Was the Best Show in America

How Aging Shapes Narrative Identity

Why Do We Have to Die?

Toxic but Fascinating

How Black Friday Got Its Name

The Science of Gratitude

A Modest Proposal for Thanksgiving

Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too

How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution

How to Turn Air Pollution into Gleaming Diamonds

Existential Comfort Without God

This Is Some Good Shit

Mathematicians Find Structure in Biased Polynomials

Steven Pinker Has His Reasons

Ignorance: How It Drives Science, a New Podcast

Who Said Science and Art Were Two Cultures?

The Power of Waves

It’s Not Irrational to Party Like It’s 1999

Ian and the Limits of Rationality

A Tale Of Two Species

The Neurologist Who Diagnoses Psychosomatics

One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science

Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction

How the Coronavirus Stays One Step Ahead of Us

Order Flocking Out of Chaos

Physicists Nail Down the “Magic Number” That Shapes the Universe

My 3 Greatest Revelations

Did Cars Rescue Our Cities From Horses?

This Is Some Good Shit

Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis

How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide

To Save Sharks, We Must Understand People

The Rise of RNA Therapeutics

How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science

David Attenborough’s Life in Color

The Math of the Amazing Sandpile

Into the Blue

The Intelligent Life of Droids

The Joys of Being a Stoic

When Evolution Is Infectious

Trillions of Bacteria Are Screaming with Light

Triggering the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

How the Coronavirus Stays One Step Ahead of Us

Pat Martino - Brain Damage Saved His Music

An Ultra-Precise Clock Shows How to Link the Quantum World With Gravity

The Hit Book That Came From Mars

Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids?

The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster

Why We’re Drawn Into Darkness

Fish in the 21st Century: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful

Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See

The Truth About Sharks

Why AI Lags Behind the Human Brain in Computational Power

Your Brain Is Like Beethoven

Everyday Noises Are Making Our Brains Noisier

Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis

The Hunt for Milky Seas

Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame

Why We Love Dinosaurs

We Are Beast Machines

Nature's Fear Factor

The “Dying Seas” of the Anthropocene

Watch and See: The Medium Really Is the Message

Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man

The New Taboos

How American Tycoons Created the Dinosaur

The Accident That Led to Machines That Can See

One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science

The Rhythm of Sculpture

Before There Were Stars

The Spacetime of Fine Art

The Hidden Fruits of the Deep

How Wavelets Allow Researchers to Transform, and Understand, Data

Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious

Neuroscience Weighs in on Physics’ Biggest Questions

Why We Can’t Get Over Ourselves

How to Quiet Your Mind Chatter

The Spiritual Consciousness of Christof Koch

We Are Beast Machines

How To Waste Time Properly

Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners

How Sea Turtles Find Their Way

The Cancer of the Great Lakes

Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare?

The Self-Driving Car Is a Red Herring

The Parallel Universes of a Woman in Science