What We Find in the Sewers

Our ancestors once spread their excess effluent on their fields; now we mine it for vital molecules. The final article of Issue 07.

Seasonal dormancy features in the life cycle of many insects. We can harness it for biological control, insect farming, and disease vector management at scale.

A single yeast cell weighs about one million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know this?

While we’ve derived useful molecules from the leech, live leech therapy has been largely marginalized in the West. It is time we reevaluate why.

A plant biologist’s quest to design and create 1,000 unique flowers, mostly in his spare time.

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