Arctic Science Cannot Afford a New Cold War
Editorial Nature Records are being broken in the Arctic, but not the kinds to celebrate. Last summer, Greenland lost more than twice as much ice as the yearly average since […]
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Universal Basic Income Seems to Improve Employment and Well-Being
By Donna Lu New Scientist The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment. […]
What Science Can do for Democracy
By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]
Closing in on the New Coronavirus
By Tim Vernimmen Knowable Magazine It is new, but not entirely. The coronavirus upending the world right now is so similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus of […]
The Neuroscience of Reality
By Anil K. Seth Scientific American On the 10th of April this year Pope Francis, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former rebel leader Riek Machar sat down together […]
If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand it Differently?
By Rebecca Wilbanks Aeon What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, argued the […]
What Makes a Genius?
By Claudia Kalb National Geographic The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia houses an array of singular medical specimens. On the lower level the fused livers of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and […]
Why the Copenhagen Zoo Shot a Healthy Young Giraffe, Dissected it in Public, and Fed its Remains to Lions
By Ian Parker The New Yorker In 2014, not long after Marius, the giraffe, was shot in Copenhagen, a British zoo professional had a conversation with Bengt Holst, the Copenhagen […]
The Assault on Federally Supported Science
By Robert D. Atkinson The Christian Science Monitor Distrust of government has long focused on economic and cultural matters, with conservative luminaries from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan arguing that […]
Teaching Doubt in Schools
By Lawrence M. Krauss The New Yorker Last month, Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin and a presumed Presidential candidate, delivered an address at Chatham House, an international-affairs think tank […]
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