🧪 Chemistry

• 💎Nine Ways to Make a Diamond

  Explore how minerals shape life on Earth and beyond in our latest study, revealing nine unique ways to create a diamond.

• 🧬What Is Epigenetics?

  How epigenetics shapes our biology beyond DNA, influencing traits across generations through mechanisms like DNA methylation.

• 🕌Religious but Not Spiritual

  Explore how "Never Have I Ever" blends humor with the complexities of Hindu identity in modern America, through the eyes of its vibrant protagonist, Devi.

• 🔬Five Questions with Betül Kaçar

  Join Betül Kaçar as she explores the frontier of astrobiology and ancient DNA, shedding light on life’s cosmic journey and evolutionary constraints.

• 🌌Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life

  Minerals may offer a key to understanding how common life is in the universe

• 🌌Consolidation of Fine-Tuning

  Building a field guide to ‘fine tuning’ across disciplines.

• 🤔Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Divine Providence, and Human Relationships with God

  Who gets to play the blame game?

• 🧪Chemistry to Life

  Harnessing the power of paradox to unravel how the first forms of life may have developed.

• 🏆Who Were the First Women to Win Nobel Prizes?

  Explore the pioneering women who shattered Nobel Prize ceilings, from Marie Curie's double win to trailblazers in peace, literature, and medicine.

• ⏳How not to do your physics homework

  Reflecting on the intersection of scientific ambition and historical significance, this narrative explores the entangled destinies of Foucault's pendulum and the Bunker Hill Monument.

• 🎬Subtleties

  Reflecting on the complexities of subtitles and their role in film enjoyment and cultural exploration.

• 🧠Mental illness and missing stories

  An insightful exploration of how Western ideas of mental illness are shaped by culture and may lack the complexity of their scientific underpinnings.

• 🌱Behold, the Planimal!

  I'm not sure why, but this news has been the source of untold instant-messaging-expressed joy among certain of my friends this week.

• 🍷Great wine, but what’s it taste like?

  A thought-provoking perspective on the complex nature of sensory experiences by Robin Goldstein.

• 🌍If There Ever Was - A Book of Extinct and Impossible Smells

  Aroma is creatively underutilized, as Robert Blackson explores through conceptual scent art.

• 🍖B.C. BBQ

  This fascinating vignette from Neolithic times reminds me of the origins of cultural gatherings, akin to the first-ever tailgate party—a communal celebration with food and ritual.

• 🐍Victorian leeches to the rescue!

  A fascinating look at modern uses of ancient leech therapy for serious medical conditions.