Science
The Woman Who Sees Time as a Hula Hoop
A small group of people see calendars not as grids, but as as rings, check marks, and other objects that seem almost vividly real.
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Radhika Nagpal A Wall-Crawling Roomba That Teaches Kids to Code
Harvard roboticists have created a robot that will gradually introduce children to programming skills by blending them with art.
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Charles Peterson / Flickr The Great Eucalyptus Debate
The Bay Area is deadlocked in a battle over whether its non-native blue gum trees should be felled or protected.
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Reuters / Lucy Nicholson The Flavors That Define American Cuisine
Contrary to its bland reputation, American food has been spicy from the start.
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Youssef Boudlal / Reuters The Desert Rock That Feeds the World
A dispute over Western Sahara’s phosphate reserves could disrupt food production around the globe.
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Why Would a Poor Kid Want to Work in Academia?
My colleague Ed wrote a piece last week examining the relative dearth of science professors who are not Asian or…
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Understudied Female Sexual Predator
According to new research, sexual victimization by women is more common than gender stereotypes would suggest.
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Sarah E. Richards / AP Natural Bridges Pick Up Vibrations From Distant Human Activity
The geological wonders could be at risk.
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Tom Parker / Quanta Magazine The Biologists Who Want to Overhaul Evolution
A half-century’s worth of scientific discoveries since the last major update to evolutionary theory has some researchers pushing for a paradigm shift.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Trump Two-Step
Talk like a maverick. Act like an extremist Republican.
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Novus Select / BioGraphic Giants in the Face of Drought
As millions of California’s trees die, what will become of the largest tree there is, the giant sequoia?
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Natacha Pisarenko / AP Preventing Mental Illness With a Stress Vaccine
Influenced by a school shooting, a neuroscientist is on a mission to change how both the brain and immune system handle stress.
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Akhtar Soomro / Reuters Microbes Might Explain Why Many Diets Backfire
The gut microbiomes of mice take time to change after bouts of weight loss, making them more vulnerable to regaining weight.
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Frederick Carl Frieseke / Wikimedia The Running Conversation in Your Head
What a close study of "inner speech" reveals about why humans talk to themselves
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Kenny Katombe / Reuters Why Are Gorillas Committing Mob Violence?
For the first time, these great apes have been seen ganging up on single males—and researchers don’t know the reason.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters What Does Trump Think About Climate Change? He Doesn’t Know Either
The president-elect appeared to consider its existence while speaking to The New York Times on Tuesday.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Science's Minority Talent Pool Is Growing—but Draining Away
The number of Ph.D. graduates from underrepresented groups grew by nine times since 1980. The number of assistant professors from those groups grew by just 2.6 times.
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Steffen Sanvig Bach The World’s Biggest Fish in a Bucket of Water
Scientists used DNA floating in just 30 liters of seawater to count the endangered whale shark across two oceans.
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Wikipedia Commons The Science Fiction That Came Before Science
Literature imagined technologically marvelous cities, space travel, and aliens before the scientific revolution even hit its stride.
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Jacky Naegelen / Reuters The Problem With Abandoning the Paris Agreement
Bill O’Reilly and Barack Obama agree: President-elect Trump shouldn’t walk away from the first international climate treaty.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Who Will Advise Trump on Science?
For 40 years, the Office of Science and Technology Policy has closely counseled the president, but its role in the new administration is unclear.
