There’s trouble inside Pakistan’s military
The army, it was thought, was the only force capable of holding the country together.
Non-fiction corner: Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
Numbers tell the terrifying story by themselves. A one-megaton bomb dropped on the Pentagon would kill about a million people in the first two...
Olfactory Impulse: Toddlers smell like flowers, teens ‘goat-like,’...
Body odour is a complex blend of airborne chemicals, many of which are produced when sweat and sebum, an oily substance typically secreted through...
Non-Fiction Corner: Authority figures: How not to think like a
Even Phillips’s titles tell us only so much. “Attention Seeking” (2019) sounds as if it’s about something shameful, when in fact, he says,...
Avian Pastime: Angry birds? These mobile games are for the winged
And some owners have found that they can keep their birds occupied with mobile games, drawing apps and music-making programs designed for young...
Covid Conservation: Where the wild things went during the pandemic
The study, which was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday, deepens and complicates scientists’ understanding of what has been called the...
Non-Fiction Corner: A salty young critic explains internet culture,...
Even her 2021 debut novel, “Fake Accounts,” contains a 40-page parody of the fragmentary novel form that was dominant in that moment, especially among...
Wild Water Cannon: Seal’s spray adds chapter to science of spitting
Jacobs trained her camera on the eagle when she noticed something moving in the water below it: a grey seal. The large mammal popped out of the waves...