“Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.”
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Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?
“Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a ‘Nature’ analysis suggests.”
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Reversing Extinction
“Technologies of preserving and reviving organisms are already redefining the meaning of life, death, and extinction itself.”
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What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
“The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?”
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Are These Clams Key to Climate Adaptation?
“They have carried different names — from maritime menace to indigenous delicacy to scientific marvel — yet none alone captures their multitude.”
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Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures
“Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we?”
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The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing
“Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?”
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Huh? The Valuable Role of Interjections
“Utterances like ‘um,’ ‘wow,’ and ‘mm-hmm’ aren’t garbage, they keep conversations flowing.”
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I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
“My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms.”
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The Pain of Perfectionism
“It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.”
