Column

  1. Earth

    Geologists play with puzzles about past and future supercontinents

    By Alexandra Witze
  2. Anthropology

    Maya calendar savvy suggests apocalypse is farther in the future than December

    By Matt Crenson
  3. Health & Medicine

    Scientists shouldn’t get hooked on notion that obesity reflects addiction to food

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Science & Society

    Despite more time for celebrity news, duration of fame remains the same

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  5. Physics

    Lessons from physics help reveal evidence for the body ferroelectric

    By Tom Siegfried
  6. Oceans

    Director’s exploration of the abyss goes deeper than Hollywood glitz

    By Alexandra Witze
  7. Science & Society

    Here’s looking at how the usual suspect film quotes go ahead and make your day

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  8. Health & Medicine

    Rats avoiding mental workloads offer clues to lower motivation in depression

    By Laura Sanders
  9. Physics

    Computers’ inability to find physical laws is a clue to math’s relationship to reality

    By Tom Siegfried
  10. Astronomy

    When solar storms pummel Earth, there’s usually no need to panic

    By Alexandra Witze
  11. Science & Society

    When it comes to food, it’s kosher for science and religion to mix

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  12. Physics

    Time’s arrow and reality’s randomness succumb to quantum thermodynamics

    By Tom Siegfried