Author: Karleen Pinheiro

His weather forecasts changed the world. Could his predictions of war?

Traditional performers at the 2007 Mt. Hagen Cultural Show in Papua New GuineaIan @ ThePaperboy When people think of religions, they tend to turn to of the big five: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Although these are the most popular religions in the world, they are a minuscule sample of the thousands of religions […]

Nutritional advice about eggs, naturally high in cholesterol, has been scrambled over the past 50 years.Jag_cz via Shutterstock The practice of nutritional science faces some significant problems, and they are mainly of its own making. For decades, starting in the 1950s, a consensus of experts recommended that Americans cut down on fat, cholesterol, and saturated […]

Kim Stanley Robinson imagines our future.

Like a set of common chords, the same math appears in diverse fields of physics.

Nils Aall Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation.

A Ganado-style Navajo rugNational Park Service For many thousands of years, and across cultures around the world, symmetry has been seen as beautiful. The mirror-image accuracy of the Parthenon is seen also in the Taj Mahal and the geometric patterns of traditional Navajo rugs. We see symmetry in more fluid, modern media, too, like the […]

A new model—“The Big Splat”—explains the strange asymmetry of the moon.

He gave away his last $30 million and felt free—a case study in altruism.

How genes influence the animal palate.