Selected Publications

How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images

How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn't End It

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer

Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping

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Trees Sweat to Keep Cool

Is Humanity Ready for the Discovery of Alien Life?

Go Figure: Why Olympic Ice Skaters Don’t Fall Flat on Their Faces

The Brain’s Marauder’s Map

Zeroing In on How Supermassive Black Holes Formed

If at First You Don’t Succeed, Show Your Baby Again

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Some Dinosaurs May Have Wagged their Tails to Help Them Run

Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí really works

COVID-19 Vaccines: The New Technology That Made Them Possible

The World’s Oldest Temple Was Built Along a Grand Geometric Plan

This Man Can’t See Numbers. But His Brain Can

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The Most Complete Simulation of a Cell Probes Life’s Hidden Rules (first appeared in Quanta)

Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain (first appeared in Quanta)

Peptides on Stardust May Have Provided a Shortcut to Life (first appeared in Quanta)

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Planes Have Nothing on Birds (first appeared in Quanta)