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Natalie Angier

Natalie Angier is a science columnist for The New York Times and the author of Woman, The Canon, and other books.

Why We Need Art

Why We Need Art

Can evolutionary biology explain the human impulse to create?

by Natalie Angier | Monday, December 04, 2017
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Birthday Suit

by Natalie Angier | Friday, September 01, 2006
The Crisis Up Close

The Crisis Up Close

Wandering our warming world

by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
A Taste for Higher Math

A Taste for Higher Math

The numbers that count

by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, March 04, 2015
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Science Doubters

When healthy skepticism turns into unhealthy antagonism

by Natalie Angier | Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”