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The Silencing of the Deaf

How high-tech implants are being blamed for killing an entire subculture.

All About Cosmic Inflation

What everyone should know about where our matter-and-radiation-filled…

Tutankhamun’s Blood

Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece…

The Man Who Destroyed America’s Ego

How a rebel psychologist challenged one of the 20th century’s…

I Was Eaten Alive By Bed Bugs

My year-and-a-half battle with Cimex lectularius

Navigating the BRAIN maze

Can the BRAIN Initiative help unravel the mysteries of the human brain?

Why are all our friends human?

Musings on the Fermi Pardox

How Many Positions on a Rubik’s Cube?

A fun lesson in permutations.

Space Dogs

Meet the canine heroes of the Soviet space programme