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On beauty, dread, and chasing tornadoes

Chasing beauty and dread in the mysteries of American tornadoes

Jana Houser wants to help the field predict how and when tornadoes form.

How a New Understanding of Evolution Could Help Treat Cancer

Examining tumor development through the lens of "selection for function" suggests radical new approaches for treatment.

Grow clothes of all colors with bacteria

This streamlined process gets us one step closer to ditching toxic textile dyes.

Do you care?

Hello Sequins, it's Max. This weekend I finished watching a gem of a documentary, called Listers. It follows two twenty-something brothers as they became "extreme" birdwatchers. It's got a very home-video feel to it: One brother is almost always behind the camera,...

Female songbirds are the glue of their community

Male songbirds aren't the only ones who sing.