Oh, swell: Scientists identify a new way for your car to corrode

Doctors May Ignore Your Messages If They’re Not Well-Written

To predict tree death, scientists tapped gamma rays to peer underground

How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness

HBO’s Great New Sunday Night Series Is the Spiritual Successor to Watchmen

Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline

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Should Deadly Self-Defense Be Tortious if Need for It Could Have Been Avoided "by Relinquishing the Exercise of [a] Right"?

Trump’s Korean Catastrophe

With a Heart for Any Fate: Early Notes from the Oregon Trail

Economic Isolation

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Is NSF’s new call for research proposals good news? Scientists and staffers have doubts

How to Bear Your Desolations

How Scientists Are Fighting Food Waste with Phages, Silk, and More

Intern (Actually a Project Veritas Undercover Plant) in Political Organization Didn't Have "Fiduciary Duty" to Organization

Open Thread

Bad Reasons and Worse Reasons to Hate Data Centers

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

The Canary in the AI Coal Mine

How to Lose a Trade War