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Just Imagining a Workout Can Make You Stronger
By Jim Davies
The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber
Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us.
By J.B. MacKinnon
We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance
Genetic engineering will bring us new Bolts and Shaqs.
By Stephen Hsu
Yes, Your Brain Does Process Information
By Brian Gallagher
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
The 1883 eruption on Krakatoa may be the loudest noise the Earth has ever made.
By Aatish Bhatia
Traffic Wouldn’t Jam If Drivers Behaved Like Ants
By Tom Vanderbilt
Retiring Retirement
A growing portion of the elderly look and act anything but.
By Linda Marsa
The Man Who Blamed Aging on His Intestines
The productive, bizarre career of Nobel laureate and early aging researcher Elie Metchnikoff.
By Luba Vikhanski
The Father of Modern Metal
The creation of stainless steel took equal parts metallurgy and perseverance.
By Jonathan Waldman
Can a Cat Have an Existential Crisis?
Treating my cat for depression caused me to question the state of anxiety in animals and us.
By Britt Peterson
Dolphins Are Helping Us Hunt for Aliens
By Daniel Oberhaus
Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food
How the chili pepper got to China.
By Andrew Leonard
Parents Shouldn’t Spy on Their Kids
Apps that make it easy to invade kids’ privacy are a recipe for arrested development.
By Kirsten Weir
How to Avoid Empathy Burnout
Caregivers can benefit by understanding a patient’s pain without feeling it themselves.
By Jamil Zaki
The Strange Ecosystem in the Sea: Dead Whales
By Virat Markandeya
Your Happiness Is Like a Rocking Chair
By Jim Davies
In the “Black Mayonnaise” of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, Alien Life Is Being Born
By Tyler J. Kelley
Why Are So Many Animals Homosexual?
By Brandon Keim
She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not
The science of waiting in modern courtship.
By Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
Love Is Like Cocaine
From ecstasy to withdrawal, the lover resembles an addict.
By Helen Fisher
Here’s What We’ll Do in Space by 2116
By Emily Lakdawalla
How to Survive Solitary Confinement
An ex-convict on how to set your mind free.
By Susie Neilson
These Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real
Realistic digital spaces need delusions as much as they need detail.
By Tom Vanderbilt
The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster
Three years of darkness and cold spawned crime, poverty, and a literary masterpiece.
By Gillen D'Arcy Wood
What I Learned from Losing $200 Million
The 2008 financial crisis taught me about the illusion of control, and how to give it up.
By Bob Henderson
Why Scientists Need To Fail Better
The rush for success is driving science into a corner, apart from wider culture.
By Stuart Firestein
The Science Hidden In Your Town Name
How place names encode ecological change.
By Eli Kintisch
Why the Russians Decapitated Major Tom
The story of the genetically engineered mouse cosmonaut.
By Roberto Kaz
The Trouble with Theories of Everything
There is no known physics theory that is true at every scale—there may never be.
By Lawrence M. Krauss
The Moral Argument for Doping in Sports
By Steve Paulson
Parenthood, the Great Moral Gamble
The decision to have a child is more ethically uncertain than you might realize.
By Claire Creffield
The Curious Case of the Bog Bodies
Why do so many corpses found in Europe’s peat bogs show signs of violent death?
By Kristen C. French
Is Coloring Within the Lines the New Meditation?
By Shannon Hall
Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?
By Amos Zeeberg
Why Does Mass Hysteria Affect Mostly Women?
By Regan Penaluna
Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes
The high speed of society has jammed your internal clock.
By Chelsea Wald
Forget “Earth-Like”—We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
By Sean Raymond
The Brilliant “Baloney Slicer” That Started the Digital Age
By Venkat Srinivasan
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
By Amanda Gefter
Turning Back the Clock on Human Evolution
Digging through the world’s oldest graveyard with African paleontologists.
By Amy Maxmen
The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein
The president and the physicist teach us a lesson about moral genius.
By Andrew O'Hehir
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
By Aatish Bhatia
The Original Natural Born Killers
In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.
By Edward Tenner
How To Waste Time Properly
The right distractions boost creativity.
By Greg Beato
This Is Your Brain on Silence
Contrary to popular belief, peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head.
By Daniel A. Gross
Why We Procrastinate
We think of our future selves as strangers.
By Alisa Opar
Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness
Sensory deprivation goes from CIA torture manuals to a yoga studio near you.
By Meehan Crist
99 Problems, and a Wild Gecko Space Orgy Is Just One
By Amy Shira Teitel
Ants Swarm Like Brains Think
A neuroscientist studies ant colonies to understand feedback in the brain.
By Carrie Arnold
The Curse of the Unlucky Mummy
When science and fear collide, a supernatural story thrives.
By Rose Eveleth
Early Humans Made Animated Art
How Paleolithic artists used fire to set the world’s oldest art in motion.
By Zach Zorich
The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics
His curious discovery, 200 years ago, foresaw our expanding universe.
By Kitty Ferguson
Animals Bow to Their Mechanical Overlords
Robots are infiltrating insect, fish, and bird communities—and seizing control.
By Emily Anthes
Why We Procrastinate
We think of our future selves as strangers.
By Alisa Opar
How To Waste Time Properly
The right distractions can boost creativity.
By Greg Beato
Purest of the Purists: The Puzzling Case of Grigori Perelman
By Jennifer Ouellette
The Meme as Meme
Why do things go viral, and should we care?
By Abby Rabinowitz
All Cells Bulletin: How Fame Powers Your Immune System
By Veronique Greenwood
Ants Go Marching
More than an expert traveler, the fire ant is the ultimate invader.
By Justin Nobel
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