Pluto is MAGA's favorite "planet" for a reason

Jared Isaacman's Pluto push is a master class in science populism

I want to do more than write science entertainment

Let's talk about science, science communication, and how knowledge matters

Who gets the job? Here's how computers could help catch unfair rankings

I am weirdly hopeful that it could be easier to notice biased AI than biased humans?

About "to" and "around" the Moon

Technically correct is not, in fact, the best kind of correct in scicomm

AI-generated science is now "good enough"

The "AI Scientist" is mediocre and uninspired. Don't dismiss it.

How do social movements win?

Timo Damm blends qualitative and quantitative research to understand how small groups push for change

You and a frog might have the same taste in music

Citizen science revealed a shared "taste for the beautiful" across species

Are the Stardew Valley wiki authors scientists?

Science is the generational project of finding out true things about the real world — and that project needs catalogers

The asteroid Ryugu contains every letter of the genetic alphabet

This is awesome, but does not mean life fell to Earth from space

Is your willpower stronger than a proton beam?

How much are researchers — especially marginalized researchers — expected to endure just to stay in science?

Stingers and spikes across nature have the same shape. Here's why.

Not everything in biology evolved for a purpose.

Networks are math squares disguised as drawings

This is why neural networks are linear algebra under the hood