
The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?
The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain brain disorders. But its famed “Innie” versus “Outie” conceit is totally bogus

The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?
The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain brain disorders. But its famed “Innie” versus “Outie” conceit is totally bogus

Poem: ‘Mendeleev’s Nightmare’
Science in meter and verse

Read all the stories you want.

Poem: ‘Cardiac Knotting’
Science in meter and verse

Poem: ‘The First Bite’
Science in meter and verse

Zoetrope Animation Is Back. Here’s How to Make One
Put your own spin on a zoetrope with homemade drawings—or carve one into a pumpkin

Poem: ‘Alfred Wegener to the World’
Science in meter and verse

Book Review: Powerful Myths Shape a Postapocalyptic World
In a postapocalyptic world on the verge of its next crisis, history gets rewritten

Book Review: A Return to the Creepy Tensions of ‘Area X’
In Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer explores the mysteries in his Southern Reach Trilogy

Poem: ‘D.N.A.’
Science in meter and verse

Book Review: Cryptography Is as Much an Art as a Science
A delightful course on keeping (and cracking) secrets

Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of Humanity
A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a ‘population bomb’

Book Review: A Bold Profile of the James Webb Space Telescope
In Pillars of Creation, Richard Panek gets up close to the JWST