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The secret code of sea shells

What drives artistically illiterate clams and snails to craft such perfection?

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I crush stalagmites from protected caves. What can I do to give back?

Scientists should do more with the communities where they work, a cave researcher writes

How does the developing brain learn to perceive the world before it can see it?

Our eyes work when we're born, even though they've never been exposed to light

paper ripping in half with money in the background

Dear Harvard, Berkeley, and MIT: don't patent CRISPR

Everyone should benefit from this once-in-a-lifetime discovery

Meet Chien-Shiung Wu, the "Queen of Nuclear Research" and destroyer of natural laws

Chien-Shiung Wu conducted some of the most elegant particle physics experiments of her time