Recommending stories from Emi Nietfeld, Brendan Borrell, Boyce Upholt, Fernando Pinho, and Vann R. Newkirk II.
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What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
“Olo can be described as the ‘greenest green,’ though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.”
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A Fatal Reaction
“A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability.”
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Gaza’s Deadly Soil
“Amid tight Israeli restrictions, new remote research is starting to make visible the scale of toxic fallout across the Gaza Strip.”
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What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?
“The biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.”
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The Anti-Sunscreen Movement Is Coming for You
“Sunscreen—one of the only products scientifically proven to reduce the risk of skin cancer—is in the middle of a PR crisis, with skeptics claiming it’s hazardous to your health. Experts dismiss the claims as misinformation, but has the damage already been done?”
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The Extraordinary Life And Quiet Death of the World’s Largest Iceberg
“Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean.”
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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
“In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation.”
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Why Are Fish So Gay?
“A conversation about finding community in the aquatic.”