science
Astronomers don’t always agree on how to describe the problem. The difference between theory and data in astrophysics can be astronomical.
Animals
pew pew pew
Humor
It's fine. It's fine. You'll sleep fine.
science
When someone weirdly obsessed with phloem cells meets someone weirdly obsessed with growing the world’s largest pumpkin, magic happens.
Writing
Aya de Leon on astronomer Geoff Marcy, sexual harassment in science, and sexist tropes in sci-fi literature.
science
The goals of science have at last been achieved!
science
Recent studies suggest the water in California, there's plenty of it, and you shouldn't worry so much. Where's all the water? Just look at it. There's some right here, and also just behind you, from before, when you turned around and you weren't looking, but it was there. The water's plenty of it.
Food
David Nix on energy systems, and how food works.
Books
Exactly what it sounds like.
Advice
A nice scientist sort-of reassures Nicole that the earth is full of terrors and earthquakes and there's not much to be done about it.
science
Studies suggest that you should come alone.
science
Aakriti Jain explains the science of body odor.
Humor
Amanda Harris examines a few of the many scientific inconsistencies to be found in 1980s pop music.
Feminism
Jane C. Hu on the science and pseudoscience of the female brain.
Health
Outta here with this "only cat nap for eight minutes" business, kindly.