Best of 2012: Science
Wild Things
Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos.
David Samuels Harper's 45min
The Crayola-fication of the World: How We Gave Colors Names, and It Messed with Our Brains
Vegetables are "blue" in Japanese and other observations on the uneasy relationship between color and language.
Aatish Bhatia Empirical Zeal 10min
Never Let Go
Kelley Benham Orion 20min
The Hazards of Growing Painlessly
Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”
The Boy Who Played With Fusion
A profile of Taylor Wilson, who achieved nuclear fusion at age 14.
Tom Clynes Popular Science 20min