When we all eventually move to Mars, we’re going to need to know how to grow our own veggies. NASA’s working on the science of farming in space.
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Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Specialized Field of Fetal Surgery
It’s a field as small as the people it operates on, and for many parents, it’s the only hope their children have.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Scientist at the Center of a Heated Scientific Feud
When one female scientist’s thirty years of research contradicted the established theory of dinosaur extinction, people started calling her a bitch that should be burned at the stake.
Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature
You’re Not Clean Until You’re 110% Clean
Narcotics Anonymous programs offer community support — but turns away people who are using medication to aid their recovery.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Homeward Bound: Allegedly a Sea of Sexual Harassment in the Field of Science
A program to encourage women to take leadership positions in the field of science has sailed into the rough seas of the #metoo movement.
Posted inHighlight, Quotes, Science & Nature
Sh*t or Get Off the Composter
Maybe pooping into porcelain bowls of potable water wasn’t the best idea we ever had.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Happened at the Lake
Wendell Lindsey is serving life prison for murdering his daughter. Maybe he did, or maybe he’s also a victim — of junk science, personal vendettas, weak investigation, and bad attorneys.
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Life Under (Water) Pressure
Welcome to the dangerous, cramped world of the saturation diver, and the extraordinary strangeness of working 500 feet under the sea.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Building a Life in Someone Else’s Ghost Town
Cisco, Utah can’t be a ghost town, because Eileen Muza lives there, but people sure treat it that way.
