The Butterfly Effect Isn’t What You Think It Is Last Tuesday, my weather app confidently predicted sunshine for my afternoon…
The Unexpected Off-Target Jennifer Doudna thought she had everything figured out when her team designed a CRISPR system to correct…
When JWST Stared at TRAPPIST-1 b Last month, Thomas Greene and his team published results from a 13-hour marathon observation…
Why Einstein’s “Biggest Blunder” Wasn’t About Gravitational Waves Here’s a myth that drives me absolutely crazy every time I see…
When Einstein’s Last Prediction Finally Spoke September 14, 2015, 4:50 AM Eastern Time. While most of the world slept, two…
From Molecular Scissors to Planetary Medicine Picture this: you’re performing microsurgery with a scalpel the size of a molecule, trying…
The Dance of Entangled Particles Picture two particles so intimately connected that measuring one instantly affects the other, regardless of…
The Ripple Effects of Programming Life Itself When researchers at Boston University successfully engineered bacteria to produce spider silk proteins…
The Refrigerator That Runs Colder Than Space At IBM’s quantum lab in Yorktown Heights, a dilution refrigerator hums quietly while…
A Mountain of Platinum Floating in the Void Picture this: a single metallic asteroid just 500 meters across contains more…