Jamie Brownlee and Kevin Walby on Psychedelic Capitalism

Jamie Brownlee and Kevin Walby discuss their concerns that psychedelics are being appropriated and commodified by institutional power structures.

June 4, 2025

How Trump’s Executive Order Threatens Scientific Understanding of Health Inequities

Joseph L. Graves Jr.

Joseph L. Graves Jr. explores health inequities, racial disparities, and the misconceptions surrounding biological race in his work.

February 18, 2025

Csaba Szabo in Conversation with Robyn Massey About Unreliable

All too often, issues encountered in today’s scientific publication process can profoundly shape research integrity. Reproducibility—the ability to replicate experimental findings—is essential to scientific methodology. Yet an alarming proportion of biomedical research papers struggle with independent verification. In Unreliable: Bias,...

January 31, 2025

John Wiens on Becoming an Ecologist

Initially, Becoming an Ecologist: Career Pathways in Science was meant to be a memoir that mapped my career journey, tracking the changes in study topics, locations, and even disciplines through the years. I thought a record of my path—what I...

January 28, 2025

Tessa Hill on At Every Depth

Beneath the waves and along the coasts of the world’s oceans, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In At Every Depth, the oceanographer Tessa Hill and the science journalist Eric Simons bring...

January 27, 2025

Ellen Prager and Dave Jones Encourage Readers, “Please, Ask Questions!”

From toddlers asking why they can’t eat the yellow snow to an adult inquiring if their coastal home will be underwater in a few years due to sea level rise, asking questions is essential to learning, to science, and to...

December 4, 2024

Six Animal Tracks to Look for on Your Next Hike

Sharman Apt Russell

Imagine walking along a forested mountain trail and coming across footprints impressed in the dirt. You think, “Do they belong to a fox, a bobcat, or a coyote? What animal fits these marks on the ground?” Combining lyrical memoir with...

June 19, 2024

Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later

G. Pascal Zachary

On his death fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush was celebrated with a page one obituary in the New York Times. He died quietly in his home in the late hours of June 29, and his passing was met with the...

June 5, 2024

Five Scientists with Disabilities Whom You Should Know

Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks

In 2018, we (Skylar and Gabi) got together and decided that we would create a book with a diversity of stories about disability and medical conditions in STEM, help contributors tell their stories in their own voices, and provide representation...

May 29, 2024

Eye of the Beholder:

Perception of Art and the Brain

Eric R. Kandel

Art is not complete without the perceptual and emotional involvement of the viewer—that is, without our response to it. As a neuroscientist and a lover of art, I am fascinated by this response, which results from the interaction of two...

May 22, 2024

The Rip Current Survival Guide

Rob Brander

The beach. There’s a lot wrapped up in those two words. To some, beaches are associated with the joys of a yearly vacation, but for others they can evoke a scary memory of being caught in a rip current. In...

April 24, 2024

Virginia Hanusik on Into the Quiet and the Light

Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana offers a glimpse into the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry....