Carbon Capture: Can We Reverse Climate Change?
Every year, humanity emits approximately 37 billion tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere. This carbon, released by burning fossil fuels, is driving climate change at a pace unprecedented in Earth's...
Kitchen Science #9: Back-to-School Chemistry, 3 Safe and Spectacular Experiments for September
September means new notebooks, sharp pencils, and the return to learning routines. It's the perfect time to bring chemistry home—not the intimidating equations and memorization of school chemistry classes, but...
Tim Berners-Lee: The Man Who Gave Away the World Wide Web
In 1989, a 34-year-old British software engineer working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Switzerland, wrote a proposal for a system to help scientists share research documents. The...
What Animals See That We Can't
Your garden on an August afternoon is not the same garden the bumblebee sees, or the robin hears, or the hedgehog smells. It is a space containing many simultaneous sensory...
The Microbiome: Your Body's Hidden Ecosystem
The microbiome represents one of biology's most significant recent discoveries—not a new organism or phenomenon, but an entire previously invisible dimension of our own biology. We have always carried these...
Kitchen Science #7: Water Wonders, 3 Brilliant Summer Experiments to Explore the Science of Water
Water is so familiar that its strangeness becomes invisible. We drink it daily, swim in it seasonally, and watch it fall from the sky with frustration—all without noticing that we're...
Jane Goodall: The Young Woman Who Went to the Forest and Changed What It Means to Be Human
Jane Goodall went to a forest in Africa to study chimpanzees and ended up teaching us something essential about ourselves: that the qualities we thought made us unique—tool use, culture,...
Why Do We Love Beaches? The Science Behind Our Obsession with Sand and Sea
Every summer, millions of British people do something that, examined dispassionately, makes very little obvious sense. They travel for hours, often through traffic, to sit on a strip of gritty...
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