In its ideal form, a contraceptive vaccine could prevent pregnancy without the messy side effects of some hormonal birth control.
Prion diseases are poorly understood, and this one is devastating.
By 2050, the human population will be 9 billion. Can the meat machine keep up?
Rising temperatures are releasing mercury into the Arctic.
The insects’ sweet tooth should have made them easy to kill. But they outsmarted us with warp-speed evolution.
Wouldn’t you love to try it?
A newly identified species upends the theory that the dinosaurs were already dying before the asteroid.
In this novel, the act of seeing is an art in itself.
Pumping a clean-energy by-product into “dead zones” could restore local ecosystems.
The science of habits reveals that they can be hidden to us and unresponsive to our desires.