Science and Creativity

October 29, 2018

Climate change is spurring the hemlock wooly adelgid, an invasive insect, to move further north, and it’s bringing down many hemlock trees.

Science and Creativity

The weird world of one-sided objects

The Conversation

September 27, 2018

The Mobius strip has fascinated environmentalists, artists, engineers, mathematicians and many others ever since its discovery in 1858.

Science

Why plant-based mosquito repellents are so hard to design

The Conversation

September 09, 2018

As humanity experiences relentless pressures from disease-carrying mosquitoes in many parts of the world, there is an urgent need for new tools to use against those beasts — because they keep getting scarier.

Can lab-crafted embryos save the northern white rhino?

Reuters

July 06, 2018

The northern white rhino is the world's most endangered mammal, and its only two living members are a mother and daughter, living in Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy.

Health & Medicine

Scientist Pajau Vangay used to make 'pretty code.' Now, she studies guts.

GlobalPost

June 21, 2018

For Vangay, the Immigrant Microbiome Project isn’t just about advancing scientific discovery in an ivory tower lab. It’s about social justice and making science more inclusive.

Science and Creativity

This is your brain on improv

The World in Words

May 24, 2018

Ever wondered about people who can improvise on stage? Neuroscientist Charles Limb and comedian Anthony Veneziale did. First came the bromance, then Veneziale found himself improvising inside an fMRI machine.

Arts, Culture & Media

The Theoretical Physicist Wore a Toga

Studio 360

June 15, 2017

Long before physicists started debating theories of parallel universes, the ancient Greeks were hatching theories of their own.

Arts, Culture & Media

It’s Tommy Westphall’s Universe, We Just Live in It

Studio 360

June 15, 2017

Taken to its logical conclusion, the enigmatic final episode of the show “St. Elsewhere” suggests that nearly all TV shows exist within the mind of one very creative boy.

Arts, Culture & Media

Turning the Scottish Countryside into a Map of the Multiverse

Studio 360

June 15, 2017

A landscape artist transformed an old coal mine into a piece of cosmic art.

Arts, Culture & Media

What Is the Multiverse (Or, How Can There Be Two Mr. Spocks)?

Studio 360

June 15, 2017

The concept of the multiverse has long captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers. Now, some physicists are starting to believe.

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