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Mondrian’s Masterpiece Is Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees.
The Train Doodle That Became Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Mascot
Ideas & Opinions
Ideas & Opinions
Mirror Molecules, Explained: The 2026 Chemistry Nobel
Your hands are mirror images. So are many molecules of life. The 2026 chemistry Nobel went to the two chemists who taught reactions to pick one.
Life on Mars, Explained: Ancient Molecules, New Clues
Curiosity found chain-like carbon molecules in a 3.7-billion-year-old lakebed. A 2026 study says non-biological sources cannot explain them all.
Neutrinos, Explained: Hunting the Universe’s Ghost Particles
Neutrinos stream through your body by the trillions every second. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics honours the telescope that finally caught them.
Optogenetics, Explained: Controlling Brain Cells with Light
Optogenetics lets scientists switch brain cells on and off with light. It just won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine. How it works.
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled people to machines to assess focus under pressure.
Business
Business
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Interviews
Interviews
Melis Buyruk Porcelain: Myth, Fragility and Power
Turkish sculptor Melis Buyruk on porcelain Habitats, Rumi’s four birds, and why beauty can be a conscious position — not decoration.
Juang Language Survival: Documenting Oral Knowledge in Odisha
Kshetrabasi Juanga on filming Juang traditions for the next generation — and why he compares Indigenous languages to grass pushing through a cracked road.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Room Temperature for Sleep: How Your Bedroom Sets Your Night
Your bedroom temperature steers how fast you fall asleep and how deep you sleep: cool rooms around 18 to 20°C beat warm ones every night.
Neuroticism and the Pandemic: Why Some Minds Struggled More
People high in neuroticism suffered larger, longer-lasting anxiety and depression through the pandemic, a 4,030-person US study finds.
Environment
Environment
Ancient DNA, Modern Bats: The Spotted Bat’s 2,000-Year Story
A bat with polka dots, pink ears and a voice humans can hear. Ancient DNA from a desert cave reveals how the spotted bat survived 2,000 years.
Ancient DNA, Modern Bats: The Spotted Bat’s 2,000-Year Story
A bat with polka dots, pink ears and a voice humans can hear. Ancient DNA from a desert cave reveals how the spotted bat survived 2,000 years.
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Art & Culture
Art & Culture
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
In the nineteenth century, acoustics primers invited whole families to make sound visible with sand, flames and homemade instruments. A look at the playful books behind it.
Herculaneum Scrolls: How Lead Ink Could Unlock Buried Texts
Scientists burned replica scrolls to learn how to read the real ones. The trick: lead in ancient ink, revealed by X-ray.
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