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Three handy tools for separating pseudoscience from the real deal | Aeon Videos
51+ min ago (131+ words) Writer: Siska De Baerdemaeker Producers: Anna Bechtol, Abdallah Ewis ‘Falsification’ ruled 20th-century science. Does it need revision in the 21st? What toddlers can teach us about how the human brain does science BBC producer John Lloyd argues against the cult of…...
Why has Venus obsessed so many astronomers? | Aeon Essays
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1120+ words) by Ananya Palivela + BIO is a science journalist. She is the physical sciences reporter at Chemical and Engineering News magazine, based in Washington, DC. She is also the author of the Substack Ananya Writes Physics. Listen to this essay There is…...
Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays
2+ week, 1+ day ago (709+ words) by Ali Rıza Taşkale + BIO Interior view of a cylindrical space settlement; artwork by Rick Guidice, 1970s. Courtesy NASA Ames Research Center Listen to this essay In 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s rebrand to ‘Meta’, he took the name from Neal…...
In suburban California, a wild peafowl population splits the community | Aeon Videos
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (199+ words) In many cultures, peacocks are considered symbols of good fortune, beauty and power. In Arcadia, California, however, many locals view these birds as a nuisance. In the late 19th century, a handful of peafowl were brought to the area from India....
She freed physics, but Emmy Noether couldn’t escape herself | Aeon Essays
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (788+ words) by Julia Ravanis + BIO Emmy Noether, c1935. Courtesy the Special Collections digital archives, Bryn Mawr College is a historian of science engaged in a popular science initiative at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Her main interests are the existential aspects…...
Ecology’s war on ‘invasive’ species isn’t science | Aeon Essays
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (605+ words) by Carlos Santana + BIO is a philosopher of science at the University of Pennsylvania, US. Edited byCameron Allan McKean Listen to this essay If we want a science that responds honestly to planetary change, we need to address the deep…...
How the harsh, icy world of Snowball Earth shaped life today | Aeon Essays
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (520+ words) by Graham Shields + BIO is professor of geology at University College London. His most recent book Born of Ice and Fire: How Glaciers and Volcanoes (and a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution (2024) weighs the evidence for Snowball Earth and…...
Time is real – if you view it through the lens of heat | Aeon Videos
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (134+ words) Video by Quanta Magazine Producers: Emily Buder, Zack Savitsky What do past, present and future mean to a philosopher of time? Time is fundamental, space is emergent – why physicists are rethinking reality Mind-bending new quantum experiments are blurring past, present…...
Orcas haven’t changed, but our view of the killer whale has | Aeon Essays
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (558+ words) by Jason Colby + BIO is a historian of environmental and international history whose research focuses on the historical relations between humans and marine mammals. He is professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and author of Orca:…...
We cooperate to survive. But, if no one’s looking, we compete | Aeon Essays
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (839+ words) by Jonathan R Goodman + BIO is a social scientist based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World (2025). Listen to this…...