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Can you guess what you’re looking at? Is it a fuzzy sock? An overripe banana? A moldy tube of toothpaste? In fact, this is the humble sea cucumber, and while...
Your hands, up close, are anything but smooth. With peaks and valleys, folds and rifts, there are plenty of hiding places for a virus to stick. If you then touch...
Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario. Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time. It then proliferated faster than public health measures could...
A canvas drenched in sunset hues, colors radiating like flame. At first glance, this painting may appear to be an impossible, abstract image. But a closer look reveals the tender...
Two sisters take the same DNA test. The results show that one sister is 10% French, the other 0%. Both sisters share the same two parents, and therefore the same...
Imagine we want to build a new space port at one of four recently settled Martian bases, and are holding a vote to determine its location. Of the hundred colonists...
It’s just after sunrise, and 16-year-old Mori Banshirô is already hard at work practicing drills with his long sword. Banshirô is an ambitious samurai in training, and today he must...
“I am an invisible man.” “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” “You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel.” These three opening lines, from Ralph...
Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we’re able to do so from an early age—...
When Nicolas Bourbaki applied to the American Mathematical Society in the 1950s, he was already one of the most influential mathematicians of his time. He’d published articles in international journals...
