While everybody else seemed to be making sourdough bread, 70-year-old photographer Andy Katz hit the road to capture “America’s greatest idea” in a new light.
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How scientists harnessed disaster to chart a path for climate resilience.
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Aggressive algae have been spreading unnoticed across reefs throughout the tropics for decades.
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With his wife, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby transformed our understanding of human nature.
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For decades, researchers have debated whether brain cells called astrocytes can signal like neurons.
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Mercedes Biocca’s The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina provides excellent accounts of Indigenous participation in and resistance to the dispossession by the capitalist and neoliberal apparatuses of accumulation and elimination.
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The most complete maps we have of the ocean floor lag far behind the maps we have of the moon.
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More than 90 percent of coastal wetlands have been altered or destroyed. What’s next?
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Some of the power of math lies in the very fact that it’s made up.
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A conversation with “rational mystic,” physicist Marcelo Gleiser.
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