Complexity
Why does complexity science like ants so much?
Ants are basically the unofficial mascot of complexity science. Why?
Elise Cutts
Elise Cutts is a science journalist and former geobiologist. She is the author of Reviewer, too.
Astrobiology
A habitable world next door?
More than you needed to know about the smudge of light that might be a planet in the habitable zone of the nearest Sun-like star
Paper Roundup
Paper Roundup July 2025: 3I/ATLAS "fanfiction," arsenic life retraction, K2-18b
Every month, I publish a curated list of scholarship on "big questions" in science — the stuff you'd find sitting on the desk of an old timey natural philosopher whisked to the present.
Announcements
I'm trying something new here.
Reviewer, too is a new newsletter synthesizing the frontiers of complexity, astrobiology, and origins of life research — and an attempt at bridging journalism and scholarship. I hope you'll join me!