Welcome back to our ongoing series on science-y buzz words. This time, we’re turning to the social sciences, so let’s begin with a social question: how many friends do you have? If you are under 50, you probably thought about checking your social media accounts in order to answer that question. Facebook has discovered that…

If you’re following the latest news out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—and you should be, because it’s arguably the most powerful observational tool mankind has ever created—you probably saw a few headlines recently about a galaxy that seems to be visible at two different places simultaneously.  As usual, these headlines are the result…

Imagine you’re a researcher, studying human beings in their natural environment. Throughout your career you’ve seen some variation in human size, but while gathering data one day, you come across a human who is roughly the same height as Mount Everest… That’s what happened to marine biologist Olivier Gros back in 2009, but on the…