The surprisingly profound debate over whether fish feel pain
What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw breath from ...
Tag: Science
Despite Trump, international PhD enrollment in the US stayed steady
For most of the 20th century, the center of gravity in science was anywhere but the US. On the eve ...
Pandemics are a choice
For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic.From the earliest thinking of the ...
The tragedy of Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth
In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, ...
How the brain builds your world of sound
In the 1970s, psychologist Diana Deutsch was experimenting with a synthesizer, when she heard something strange. “It seemed to me ...
The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling
Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of ...
Our understanding of memory is all wrong
Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is.We tend to imagine memory ...
What humans might learn from nature’s real-life zombies
Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them.She’s ...
This experiment could end all life. Or it won’t. Should we try it?
It could revolutionize human health — or it could spell our doom. It really depends on who you ask. I’m ...
Jane Goodall’s most radical message was not about saving the planet
Most people know Jane Goodall, the eminent primatologist who died on Wednesday at 91, for her singular, field-defining work on ...
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