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(Revised from an article first published in March, 2020) Riding the New York City subway is a rather gruesome experience on a good day. And there is no such thing as a good day. They are all bad or worse.

In 2016, five Navy SEAL trainees lost consciousness during pool exercises at the Navy’s Basic Unde

Insects like bees and spiders use static electricity for various tasks, including traveling, avoiding predators, and collecting pollen.

During my discussion with Lars this week, we discussed the severity of this year’s flu season.

Until recently, a career in science communication did not inspire many people. Carl Sagan popularized it, but most attributed its popularity to Sagan's “once in a generation” mind and personality.

I’ve written in the past about Walter Midgley, the engineer behind leaded gasoline, and his mentor, Charles Kettering, who went on to help found Memorial Sloan Kettering.

I explained to Lars that this all started in 1986 when the White House published a white paper, The Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology, which got the science right—regulation should be risk-based, not dictated by the me

Cardboard has been with us for so long. The pandemic brought cardboard to new highs as delivery became THE thing. 

New Year’s resolutions are a ritual of bold promises that rarely stand the test of time.

Metaphors bridge us from the known to the less known. Some metaphors are more like highways than bridges, as in this piece by Austin Kleon on soup.  “Here’s the writer Charlie Fletcher: