Stories by knowablemag

Election polls aren’t broken, but they still can’t predict the future

Profiling the Perpetrators of Past Plagues

GPS is going places: Five ways scientists use the nagivation system

Artificial retina implants: Polymers promise a more flexible artificial retina

Do soda taxes work? The global soda tax experiment

The psychology of revenge is bittersweet at best

What electronic games can teach us

Now in development: off-the-shelf stem cells

The next omics? Tracking a lifetime of exposures to better understand disease

Cell meets robot in hybrid microbots

Total recall: A brilliant memory helps chickadees survive

Analytics wind up for a shot in ice hockey

War and drugs: Together since forever

A World in a Bottle of Water

How the moon landings changed our view of the solar system

Tiny, Living Stones of the Sea

3-D printing could help shape surgery

A Quantum Origin for Spacetime

Low Marks for Performance Reviews

The quest for autism’s causes, and what it reveals about all of us

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