“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” wrote John Keats.
Articles from December 2021
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New England, awash in light pollution • NASA (Public Domain)
Washed away in a sea of light
A few weeks ago I was with a group of students from MIT and Salem State College under clear dark skies at the Caribbean Marine Research Center in the Bahamas.
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Getting personal in the lab
As a Valentine’s week service to our readers, this column again offers personal ads from science and technology professionals.
Skull of Australopithecus africanus • Photo by Emőke Dénes (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tiny clues, big answers
Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? To ask these questions is to be human.
Illustration of Cortinarius torvus by Beatrix Potter
Barred from science
No children’s book author is more revered than Beatrix Potter.
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Trading years for tears, and loving it
“You’ll be the death of me yet.” What parent hasn’t said that to a child. Or at least thought it.
Pediculus humanus capitis, the human head louse • Photo by Gilles San Martin (CC BY-SA 2.0)
From lousy to worse
If you are reading this at breakfast, you might want to put it aside until a less gastronomically sensitive moment.
A Gutenberg Bible at the New York Public Library • Photo by Kevin Eng (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The one who changed the world
Let’s get a jump on end-of-year hoopla and ask now: Who is the “Person of the Millennium”?
Idaho? I dunno • Photo by Andrey Konstantinov on Unsplash
In case you missed it
Here are some true science stories you may have missed during the past year, mostly drawn from the pages of the journal Science:
Furbies from the late 90s • Photo by Robert Gourley (CC BY 2.0)
The day the Furbies said ‘no’
Friday at New York’s FAO Schwartz on Fifth Avenue, Hasbro’s Tiger Electronics division unveiled Furby — a “cuddly stand-alone animatronic pet” that will sell for approximately $30.