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Science & Society

Sound reasoning requires statistical understanding

Health & Medicine

Itch

When it comes to sensory information detected by the body, pain is king, and itch is the court jester. But that insistent, tingly feeling—satisfied only by a scratch—is anything but funny to the millions of people who suffer from it chronically.

Space

Half-life (more or less)

Physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what’s unchangeable—the rate of radioactive decay.

Chemistry

Silk

Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers.