The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas — A Review
Lewis Thomas | Viking Press, 1974 | 153 pages Every boundary you trust is a…
Organoid Intelligence: The Ethically Complicated Science of Growing Thinking Brain Tissue in a Dish
A cluster of human neurons in a Baltimore lab learned to play Pong. Researchers are now asking whether it can suffer. Here’s the science and the ethics of organoid intelligence.
The Skull That Rewrote Human Evolution: What Sahelanthropus tchadensis Tells Us About Walking Upright
A skull found in Chad in 2001 may be the oldest known member of the human lineage. A femur found beside it generated a twenty-year argument about who gets to publish it.
Neanderthal Pharmacology: The Growing Evidence That Our Closest Cousins Self-Medicated
A Neanderthal buried in an Iraqi cave was surrounded by medicinal plants. Ancient dental plaque has reopened that debate with chemical evidence. Here’s what we now know.
The Universe Had No Business Working: The Anthropic Principle, Fine-Tuning, and the Question Nobody Can Stop Asking
Physicists are not generally a mystical lot. They spend their careers dismantling wonder into equations,…
The History of Science’s Most Productive Mistake: How Phlogiston Theory Built the Experimental Infrastructure That Killed It
Phlogiston — the invisible fire-essence that doesn’t exist — produced some of the most rigorous chemistry of the 18th century. Here’s how a false theory built the tools that killed it.
