The Energy Scavengers
By harvesting the everyday energy of static electricity, scientists may have found the world's most plentiful source of renewable, sustainable…
Writings
What is attribution science?
Climate and weather are related — but not the same. Climate describes patterns of weather in an area over long stretches of…
Space weather forecast: Big storms ahead
The sun hurls giant plasma cannonballs at the Earth. What’s the worst that can happen? In the darkest hours of…
Extreme Weather: Will Global Warming Produce More Disasters?
Climate scientists say that rising global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions are making some extreme weather events increasingly likely…
Riding a Wave of Sound
One way to get drugs through the blood-brain barrier: smuggle them across using sound waves. The blood-brain barrier, a name…
Scientist vote to fix the world’s weight-loss problem
November is election time, and not only for voters in the United States. On November 16, hundreds of scientists will…
Unraveling the Mathematics of Smell
The human nose finds it simple to distinguish the aroma of fresh coffee from the stink of rotten eggs, but…
Can the principles of topology help improve the world’s slums?
According to the United Nations (UN), nearly 1 billion of the 8 billion people in the world live in slums…
The Patient Stays in the Picture
IN JUNE 2014, oncologist Fabrice Denis of the Jean Bernard Center, a cancer hospital in Le Mans, France, began approaching people…
How three coastal communities are dealing with rising seas
Around the world, rising seas pose a major threat to coastal communities. Flooding will likely become worse, damaging buildings where…