Think Like a Hacker
One winter morning in 2015, as he left for work from his home in Silver Spring, Md., Jonathan Margulies pushed…
Category: Features
Resurrecting the Riverkeepers
Under cover of darkness, thieves dove into the inky waters of Tennessee's river sanctuaries and scooped up endangered washboard mussels…
Predicting the whirlwind
In more than 20 years as a meteorologist, Joshua Wurman had seen – and chased – more than 150…
Solving a math problem to create art
Optimization is the mathematical quest for the best way to do something, from finding the shortest distance between two places…
When your stuff spies on you
In October 2016, hackers hit a company called Dyn. Hackers are people who write computer programs that can break into…
Every breath we take
Back in Christmas 2013, the CineStar cinema in Mainz, Germany, became an impromptu, oversized laboratory. Over the course of 108…
Let the structural symphony begin
Like other structural biologists, Eva Nogales works in extraordinary times. The University of California, Berkeley, faculty member now has the…
Inside the lost cave world of the Amazon’s tepui mountains
They are vast towers rising out of the jungles of the Amazon basin. Tepuis, rocky tabletop mountains isolated by hundreds…
You Swine!
RODNEY WOODSON never set out to be a pig trapper. He joined the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency because he was passionate…
Of Waves and Wallpaper
To most people, wallpaper is little more than a decorative background on a flat surface: Pleasing designs, pasted in vertical…