A reading and listening list for scientific anti-racism

Angry about the murder of George Floyd? Want to learn more? Start here

A transcendental visualization of pi, for Pi Day

Let your mind drift in the styles of Marcel Duchamp and Philip Glass

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Buy your scientist Valentine books from our reading list

Our writers' recommendations for books about health, including pain, teeth, sex, and mental health

A science holiday guide for the nerd in your life

Show people how much they mean to you with brain games, microbe toys, animal art, and more

Massive Science celebrates love, nature-style

Flowers, chocolate, and light-based mating dances

Scientists just cut the tolerable intake of PFAs by 99.9%

PFAs are everywhere. In cosmetics, wrapping your greasy take-out burgers, and eventually, 98% of humans' bloodstreams. The recommended tolerable intake for PFAs was just cut by 99.9%.

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What have we learned from science's most infamous doctor-patient relationship?

Reanimation! is a seven-part, animated series on the lasting impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, an inspiration to scientists

Le Guin was a testament to how fiction reveals truth, empathy, and the beauty of knowledge

Seeking: scientists who want to write impactful climate stories

Apply for free training in science storytelling, two published articles, and a place in our vibrant community of peers

4 incredible fossils found by paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey

Meet the British anthropologist who completely changed our understanding of the hominid ancestral tree

Meet the woman who changed how we treat cancer

Jane Cooke Wright saved millions by making chemotherapy more effective

Meet Sau Lan Wu, the physicist who helped discover three fundamental particles

Most scientists spend their careers hoping for a single big discovery. Sau Lan Wu has had three and is still searching for more.

Meet the first Black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry

Marie Maynard Daly worked at a time when our understanding of DNA was changing in big ways

Neurons die with grace

Neuroscientist Emily Lowry’s ongoing research on how and why nerve cells die has implications for Alzheimer’s, ALS and beyond.

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Scientists are concerned and troubled by the Trump administration

Research could wither if the federal funding it depends on becomes scarce or disappears.

We can’t see it or feel it, but we know it’s out there. Probably.

Learn how we know about dark matter, the best attempts so far to explain what it is, and the experiments that are trying to detect it.

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Dark Matter makes up a quarter of our universe, but we still have no idea what it is

The discovery of the Higgs boson points us in the right direction, but we’re still feeling our way through the dark.