science

In many ancient creation myths, everything was born of a great cosmic ocean with no beginning and no end, lapping […]

Attention is less a lens on the world than a mirror for the mind. “My experience is what I agree

Long before they could vote, the women known as the Harvard Computers shaped our understanding of the universe with their

“Who has known the ocean? Neither you nor I, with our earth-bound senses,” Rachel Carson wrote in her pioneering essay

“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in

By Maria Popova Alongside humans, leafcutter ants form some of nature’s vastest, most sophisticated societies — a single mature colony

We are denizens of an enormous pebble drifting through the cosmic ocean of pure spacetime — a planet made a

A human being is a living constellation of contradictions, mostly opaque to itself. “Inward secret creatures,” Iris Murdoch called us

For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly