The Corn That Grows Itself

The Corn That Grows Itself

How microbes could upend America’s toxic dependence on nitrogen fertilizer
Could An Incompleteness In Quantum Mechanics Lead To Our Next Scientific Revolution?

Could An Incompleteness In Quantum Mechanics Lead To Our Next Scientific Revolution?

Sometimes, if you want to understand how nature truly works, you need to break things down to the simplest levels ...
First ever black hole image released

First ever black hole image released

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. It measures ...
At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why.

At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why.

She’d been told that childbirth was going to be painful. But as the hours wore on, nothing bothered her — even ...
The Day the Dinosaurs Died

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

If, on a certain evening about sixty-­six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up
SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS SHOW HOW MOTION IS EQUIVALENT TO HEAT

SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS SHOW HOW MOTION IS EQUIVALENT TO HEAT

SOME OF THE most difficult (and most important) experiments in the history of physics had to do with
A CLEVER NEW STRATEGY FOR TREATING CANCER, THANKS TO DARWIN

A CLEVER NEW STRATEGY FOR TREATING CANCER, THANKS TO DARWIN

IN OCTOBER 1854, a government entomologist was inspecting some farmland outside the town of Ottawa, in northern ...
Why Twisted Graphene Is One of the Most Exciting Physics Stories of the Year

Why Twisted Graphene Is One of the Most Exciting Physics Stories of the Year

Just a year ago, scientists presented results that seemed almost too good to be true: Carbon sheets only a single ...
Imagining the Jellyfish Apocalypse

Imagining the Jellyfish Apocalypse

The stinging, gelatinous blobs could take over the world’s oceans.
The world’s first zero-emissions fossil-fuel power plant

The world’s first zero-emissions fossil-fuel power plant

From the top of the Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge, more than 50 meters (160 ft) above Buffalo Bayou, in every ...
All the risks of climate change, in a single graph

All the risks of climate change, in a single graph

he risks of climate change are not easy to communicate clearly. Since the atmosphere affects everything, everything
Do civilisations collapse?

Do civilisations collapse?

There’s a common story of how the Maya civilisation was wiped out: they fell foul of unstoppable climate change. ...