The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

The Thrill of Science in 2042

It's the Spending, Stupid!

Department of Homeland Security detains Columbia student identified as neuroscience researcher

“How we live as ethical people and behave and think wisely is not something to optimize, or, crucially, to even let ourselves think about in this way”

Open Thread

Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’

C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score (And My Quest For The Perfect “Baguette”)

Do These Centenarians Hold the Key to Long Life in Their Blood?

Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined (from an Originalist Perspective)

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize

Welcome to the Year of Dreaming

The poorly understood science of sensation. Music can make chocolate taste bitter; rice pudding can make you cry 

Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare

Yes, Science Has a Political Bias Problem. Here’s One Way to Fix It.

The Brain Science Behind the Munchies

Head of Haiti’s new research agency determined to ‘keep a candle burning for science’

Celebrating worm science

The Year That Could Be

We need to talk about salaries in science