The Best American Science Writing 2007
March 2, 2025Jonathon Keats’s article from Popular Science recounts the work of the guru of artificial intelligence, John...
What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
February 14, 2025‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
February 10, 2025"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
February 9, 2025Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were...
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
February 5, 2025In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld
January 27, 2025He was a discoverer and an inventor, a physicist and a chemist, intensely focused on his...
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
January 25, 2025So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
January 24, 2025In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
January 11, 2025Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes – by Alex Vilenkin
January 11, 2025As childhood gave way to adulthood, I came to the realization that my greatest attraction to...




