Tag: Science

Almost 20 years ago, James Randerson ordered a sequence of smallpox DNA. Smallpox is the only human disease to have ...

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What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw breath from ...

For most of the 20th century, the center of gravity in science was anywhere but the US. On the eve ...

For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic.From the earliest thinking of the ...

In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, ...

In the 1970s, psychologist Diana Deutsch was experimenting with a synthesizer, when she heard something strange. “It seemed to me ...

Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of ...

Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is.We tend to imagine memory ...

Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them.She’s ...