Scientists Have an Answer to How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built
Using sand, water, and a scale model of an ancient Egyptian transport sled, a team of international scientists ...
Go Outside, It’s Good for You
If E.O. Wilson is right, that our love of nature is innate, what does it mean to be cloistering ourselves inside, away from it?
Happy Birthday, Osamu Shimomura!
August 27th marked the birthday of Osamu Shimomura, the organic chemist who discovered green fluorescent protein in 1962. ...
Mosquitoes: The Science Behind the Pests
Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others? How you smell to a mosquito affects how much you're bit.
“Plastic Rock” Marks the Presence of Humans in the Fossil Record
Plastic in the ocean has created an entirely new kind of rock: plastiglomerate.
JSTORies: Jeanine Vélez Gavilán
Jeanine Vélez Gavilán discusses her career in botany, her passion for endangered plants, and how climate change challenges botanists today. Visit ...
Annals of Mathematics
Recognized as one of the most highly esteemed mathematical journals in the world, Annals of Mathematics has been in circulation since 1884
Is Our Soap Hurting Us?
Julia Scott, a writer and radio producer in San Francisco, was recently a test subject for a living ...