There’s a myth about glass you might have read about in high school: If you go to a church that’s hundreds of years old and look at the […]

Elisabeth Bik did not start out her career as a vigilante. In fact, for many years, she was a microbiologist, studying human microbiomes. But then, one evening in […]

Tucked away in the rolling green hills of the New York Palisades, there’s an unusual library: the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository. Instead of shelves, it has more than 50,000 […]

What is the strangest meat you’ve eaten? For me, it’s reindeer. This was during a trip to Finland when I was 7. We’d gone to the Arctic Circle, […]

The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded on Monday to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, for discoveries that led to the development of mRNA vaccinations, including those developed […]