Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

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How <em>This is Your Brain on Music</em> Transformed Neuroscience

How This is Your Brain on Music Transformed Neuroscience

Elizabeth Margulis on the Importance of a Seminal Work of Popular Science on the Field of Music Cognition

By Elizabeth Margulis | May 20, 2026

A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine

A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine

Masud Husain Explores Some Common Misconceptions Surrounding the Brain's Pleasure Sensors

By Masud Husain | May 13, 2026

Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev Consider How Money Reflects the Physical World

By J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev | May 13, 2026

Thinking Inside the Box: How Constraints Can Make Us More Creative

Thinking Inside the Box: How Constraints Can Make Us More Creative

“Constraints shut down many possibilities, but stimulate more varied and novel exploration of those that remain.”

By David Epstein | May 6, 2026

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

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How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

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On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes

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Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Considers Literary and Scientific Ways of Interpreting the World We Live In

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How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

How World War I Created the Army Olive Green We Know Today

Kory Stamper on the Wartime Development of the Dyestuff Industry in the United States

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Why can’t human editors identify AI?

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The Anxiety (and Relief) of Diagnosis

The Anxiety (and Relief) of Diagnosis

Alexandra Sifferlin on the Road to Diagnosing Illness and Disease

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On a Bet, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Invented the Way We Still Identify Plants

On a Bet, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Invented the Way We Still Identify Plants

Jessica Riskin on the 18th-Century French Botanist Who Changed Biology Forever

By Jessica Riskin | March 25, 2026

The Origin of Our Species: How Grains and Grasses Fed (and Still Feed) Humankind

The Origin of Our Species: How Grains and Grasses Fed (and Still Feed) Humankind

David George Haskell In Praise of a Versatile, Life-Giving Plant

By David George Haskell | March 25, 2026

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