NeuroscienceJanuary 23, 2025
The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?
The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain brain disorders. But its famed “Innie” versus “Outie” conceit is totally bogus
Arts
ArtsJanuary 21, 2025
Poem: ‘Mendeleev’s Nightmare’
Science in meter and verse
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ArtsDecember 17, 2024
Poem: ‘Cardiac Knotting’
Science in meter and verse
ArtsNovember 19, 2024
Poem: ‘The First Bite’
Science in meter and verse
ArtsOctober 31, 2024
Zoetrope Animation Is Back. Here’s How to Make One
Put your own spin on a zoetrope with homemade drawings—or carve one into a pumpkin
ArtsOctober 15, 2024
Poem: ‘Alfred Wegener to the World’
Science in meter and verse
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: Powerful Myths Shape a Postapocalyptic World
In a postapocalyptic world on the verge of its next crisis, history gets rewritten
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: A Return to the Creepy Tensions of ‘Area X’
In Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer explores the mysteries in his Southern Reach Trilogy
ArtsSeptember 17, 2024
Poem: ‘D.N.A.’
Science in meter and verse
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: Cryptography Is as Much an Art as a Science
A delightful course on keeping (and cracking) secrets
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of Humanity
A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a ‘population bomb’
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: A Bold Profile of the James Webb Space Telescope
In Pillars of Creation, Richard Panek gets up close to the JWST