When Scientists Are Dinosaurs 

Eric Swalwell, Pope Fight, Tax Day Woes

Conservatives Want the Government To Pay Americans To Get Married and Have Kids

Brooding on verandas, slurping Pepsi Max, carefully observing the color of urine — across thousands of pages, certain Knausgaardian tropes repeat

The Substance of the Clean Power Plan Memos

The Turkish novelist Leylâ Erbil was an autodidact and outcast who liked being mad, bad, and sad in a nation of pious Kemalists

The Bipartisan War on Cheap Food

Open Thread

The Campaign Against Palantir

Sunday Poem

Druski, Whiteface, and the Ethics of the Bit

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for

Scientists discover genetics behind leaky brain blood vessels in Rett syndrome

Scientists Create Map of Deadly Scorpion Hotspots  

Scientists Discover Brain Circuit That Acts Like a ‘Brake’ on Motivation

India has big plans to remove silt from rivers—and scientists are alarmed

The Trump administration says some approved childhood vaccines need better studies. Scientists disagree

The Books That Blew These Scientists’ Minds

Venomous Snakes Represent a Serious Public Health Problem, Scientists Are Biting Back

Scientists spot never-before-seen shock wave around dead star

Seeding opportunities for Black atmospheric scientists