Tilting The Apple Cart
One way to help feed the world's growing population is by reducing food waste. This is where the Arctic Apples come in.
Dispatches
Cracking The Cod(ex)
The Voynich Manuscript has been called the world’s most mysterious medieval manuscript. It is an illustrated codex made of vellum, carbon-dated to the early 15th century. The manuscript is written in an unknown script and almost every page has a colorful drawing or diagram. Countless cryptographers, linguists, botanists,…
Nothing Like The Sun
Five bright angles on the future of solar energy.
Father Of The Pill
Carl Djerassi may not a household name. But the hormone he helped synthesize means he will always be world famous.
Electricity’s Future, Part III: Microgrid
"Microgrids" promise a world in which homeowners store excess energy from the day, using it later at night, without buying electricity from a utility.
Sexism In Science
If more women are going to be found in hard sciences, more female role models are still needed.
Notes From Underground
Seven becomes the (un)lucky number of underground explorations.
Web Time
Five takes on the wonder that is the spider web.
Shrinking Generation
As the energy landscape shifts from larger to smaller networks of production, so do the definitions of power producers and consumers.
Bac To The Future
A recently discovered soil bacterium with antibiotic properties shows amazing promise, but the real find may be the tool that discovered it.