SCIENCE
Love potion #9: a (neurochemical) recipe
The secret ingredient required to make a love potion isn’t eye of newt or pixie dust
Coronavirus: fact versus fiction
The outbreak of a new coronavirus has sent panic rippling across the world at speeds far faster than the actual virus travels. If this is somehow the first exposé you’ve encountered, “coronavirus” is the somewhat-misleading name now commonly used to refer to the 2019 novel coronavirus (or 2019-nCoV, for short), ...
Sexual compatibility made easy
Finding a partner as a fungus with 28,000 different sexes
Let’s talk about (genetic) sex
“In Urdu, the only language she knew, all things, not just living things but all things—carpets, clothes, books, pens, musical instruments—had a gender. Everything was masculine or feminine, man or woman. Everything except her baby. Yes of course she knew there was a word for those like him—Hijra. Two words ...
Climate Count-Up: #4 Plant-rich diets
Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
Top ten of the 2010s in science
The most significant scientific discoveries of the past decade
Climate count-up #3: Food waste
Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
Climate count-up: #6 educating girls
Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
Climate Count-up: #37 Mass Transit
Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
Microplastics, explained
A quick guide to the world of microplastics