A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

Bioarchaeologists recently identified a murdered medieval royal, and are now working to shed light on other ancient deaths.

How a twisted triangle of glass tubing helped democratize chemistry and build the modern laboratory.

A critique of a snippet from Dario Amodei and Dwarkesh Patel’s recent interview.

How to “read” nucleic acids, from Sanger to nanopores.

First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.

A eulogy to the reference human.