What is it like to be a bird? Brandon Keim meets the semipalmated sandpiper and muses on animal individuality

One of the hardest parts of medicine: the waiting. By Ilana Yurkiewicz

Killer lede in this piece on an obesity epidemic… in invasive lionfish. By Christie Wilcox.

SciCurious has the dope on dopamine—an utterly remarkable chemical that gets stupidly simplified.

“The concept of a minimal genome, while provocative, is ultimately a dead end.” – Carl Zimmer.

The neurosurgeon behind the “Proof of Heaven” story has… a bit of a past. A summary, and the full story.

Brian Switek shoots Bigfoot down in flames.

“I think that science can be self-correcting but it requires people to do that correcting.” Great