Missing animals that could help rescue the ocean’s forest
The kelp forests off the West Coast are dying, and with their decline, an entire ecosystem of marine plants and animals is at risk. A large starfish...
Deep dive Ancient DNA reveals history of hunter-gatherers in Europe
3 March 2023Over the past decade, geneticists have added a new dimension to that history by extracting DNA from teeth and bones. And now, in a pair of studies...
The cashless trail: Where digital payments are colossal in scale
3 March 2023India’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy
Fashion forward: With Lagerfeld, clothes were only part of the story
2 March 2023Lagerfeld rather achieved mega-celebrity status by giving dramatic makeovers to two entities: the esteemed but for a time somewhat moribund house of...
Pandemic origins: Shaky discourse around lab-leak hypothesis
2 March 2023If you had been told, back in 2019, that this would be the state of knowledge in 2023, would it not seem weird that there has not been a broad public...
In memoriam Paul Berg, Nobel-winning pioneer of genetic engineering
1 March 2023The achievement was the first link in the chain of advances that has led to the genetic engineering of new therapeutic treatments for diseases and of...
Sustainable alternatives: A gold mine of clean energy under our feet
1 March 2023How much cheaper would it be if we could drill for hydrogen the way we drill for oil and natural gas, and put to good use society’s enormous...
Pest control: Should we even ask if there is an ethical way to kill...
28 Feb 2023Standard wooden snap traps often catch limbs or tails, forcing rats to gnaw them off in desperation. Live-catch traps are difficult to implement, and...