Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts
Smell is often dismissed as the least important sense. But it’s the funk that draws us together
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Same Vaccine, Different Effects: Why Women Are Feeling Worse after the Jab
For decades, researchers have been conducting flawed clinical trials. The COVID-19 vaccine was no different
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Affected Development: Will Kids Ever Recover from Isolation?
For many children, our panicked pandemic lives are the only lives they’ve ever known
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What Happens to Our Brains When We Get Depressed?
The human brain, in all its complexity, is nearly impossible to model. One neuroscientist is trying anyway
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If a Tree Talks in the Forest, Does It Make a Sound?
Ecologist Suzanne Simard uncovers the hidden connections beneath the forest floor
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Blah Blah Blah: The Lack of Small Talk Is Breaking Our Brains
Chit-chat is often dismissed as mindless and boring. But its absence over the past year is affecting you more than you think
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Housebound and Bored? Turn Yourself into a Human Guinea Pig
During a time of endless lockdowns, self-discovery sometimes means self-experimentation
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What’s More Dangerous than Leaping Out of a Plane?
Most things, it turns out. But science rarely shapes our decision making the way fear does
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Discovering the Universe through the World’s Largest Telescope
The ALMA array is our most powerful tool for witnessing the birth of new planets
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Are Plants Listening to Us? It Depends Who You Ask
A controversial 1970s book claimed that plants can hear. It turns out its authors might not have been entirely wrong
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