A Brief History of Xenopus

From early experiments on fertility and embryonic development to becoming the first cloned eukaryote from an adult cell, Xenopus frogs have had an outsized influence on the life sciences.

The Sunlight Budget of Earth

Sunlight represents a seemingly endless source of largely untapped energy. Just how endless is it?

A Visual Guide to Gene Delivery

There are at least 10,000 known monogenic diseases. When attempting to cure them, how do clinicians decide which gene-therapy delivery method is best?

Cable Bacteria are Living Batteries

How a discovery in a Danish lake changed our understanding of biological communities and energy.

How to Scale Proteomics

A look inside Parallel Squared Technology Institute, a focused research organization trying to make analyzing a proteome as easy as DNA sequencing.

Spinning Bacteria

By spinning bacteria in circles, scientists figured out how phage viruses time their escape from an infected cell.

What Makes a Mature Science

SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

Mechanism alone cannot make a science credible. It must describe its subject matter in terms of entities, properties, and rules.