Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird

Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded the Foundation for Science and AI Research

In the Victorian era, discoveries upended humanity's place in the cosmos. Tennyson turned this metaphysical crisis into poetry

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

New AI model could cut the costs of developing protein drugs

The New Global Order

Are we hard-wired for infidelity?

Open Thread

Dogs Can Have Dementia, Too

Pulsar Found Near the Center of the Milky Way Could Test Einstein’s Theories

Giant Pythons Once Roamed Prehistoric Taiwan

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

EPA sidesteps science in repeal of U.S. greenhouse gas rules

Celebrating worm science

John Roberts Serves A Blue Plate Special, And The Progressives Forget All Of Their Complaints About The Shadow Docket

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR (The Foundation for “Science and AI Research”)

In 1894 a German archaeologist discovered the poetry of Bilitis, a Greek contemporary of Sappho’s. There was just one problem

Red tape on a blue planet

We associate confessional poetry with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. But Larry Levis’s confessionalism was different

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