The Whole Universe Catalog
A seemingly endless variety of food was sprawled over several tables at the home of Judith L. Baxter and her…
Year: 2015
Uncharted underground
Matt Covington didn’t sleep much the night before his big swim. Who could blame him? For two days, the wiry…
Charting the history of western art with math
For more than a century, researchers have used statistics to study writing style in a sort of literary forensics…
Stretchy battery
It’s no stretch to say that batteries won’t continue to be rigid and blocky forever. Engineers inspired by Japanese…
A Desire to Help
Children can be many things. Joyful, energetic and exasperating. Curious, playful and sad. For P.J. Lukac, who is finishing his…
Looking for the roots of risk
On a bright day in the first week of August, Julianna Deardorff escorted five Chilean scientists from Berkeley to The Farm,…
Retractions: Righting the wrongs of science
If the results from an experiment look too good to be true, look again. Those are wise words…
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."…
Perovskite’s solar promise
In the last few years, the sun-to-power efficiency of perovskites has surged at an unprecedented rate. This material is easier…
Where will lighting strike?
Michael McQuilken will never forget the day lightning struck his younger brother. On August 20, 1975, he and…