The Boxes We Put Nature In: Rethinking How We Study the World

🌊 What if the boundaries we impose on nature prevent us from seeing how it actually works? Scientists often divide the natural world into neat categories: ocean and seafloor, land and water, surface and subsurface. But nature rarely follows those boundaries, and the categories we create can shape what we notice, what we miss, and what we choose to protect. Geological oceanographer Ivano Aiello explores this idea through three surprising case studies. At the bottom of the Mediterranean, an extra