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."…
Category: Features
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…
Cutting Cancer’s Engine
Not every hypothesis in cancer research has the same staying power. Some emerge with fanfare and hype, only to fade…
Riding raindrops
To humans, falling rain usually amounts to little more than a minor inconvenience. After all, we are big and raindrops…
Tennessee’s bat cave
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TENN. — The world’s first artificial bat cave is expecting the arrival of its first winged visitors.…