Let It Bee
No one will starve to death if honeybees disappea. But our food choices will be severely limited.
Dispatches
Language By Law
With 2010's Plain Writing Act, the U.S. government launched an official war against the "gobbledygook" and bureaucratize it helped create.
Desalination Complication
Why desalination is not as simple as filtering seawater.
Friendly Eyes
How the hormone of Oxytocin bonds us to man's best friend.
Faking It
The difference between the authentic and the fabricated is not always so clear.
What Is “Natural”?
We no longer need the term “natural,” but we do need products that are safe, well-researched, and sustainable.
The Language Of Lincoln
The power of President Lincoln's most famous speech resides in its simplicity.
Seize The Decay
A new sensor with the ability to measure the metabolic degradation of food will change the way you look at your refrigerator shelves.
Alone Again, Or
Scientists have been studying the calls of a whale dubbed “the loneliest whale in the world” for more than 20 years. Its calls are unusually high pitched—52 hertz, versus the typical 15-20 hertz range of blue whales. No one has ever seen the 52-hertz whale, but scientists believe he…
Mind The Gap
Translation, or the attempt to make another language part of our own, is as complicated as what can never be translated.