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…
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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…
Edging into the spotlight
"He had been trying to get his colleague Charles Kane to listen to him, but Kane wasn’t having any of it."…
Science behind the scenes
Jerry Zucker! Natalie Portman! Arthur C. Clarke! My article about the Science & Entertainment Exchange is now up at…
Freeing the dinos within
Paleontologists have long faced a daunting obstacle to their research: Fossils are usually embedded in rock. To manually wrench the…
Supersized Viruses
On February 22, festival-goers at Melbourne’s dusk-to-dawn White Night celebration lined up in droves outside the State Library of Victoria…
Mussels’ sticky feet lead to applications
J. Herbert Waite was a graduate student in biochemistry in the 1970s when he began to wonder how mussels cling…
‘Print’ almost anything
Imagine having a printer hooked up to your computer that could make anything. Tired of your toothbrush? No problem. Print…