Features and Investigations

This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine siblings. So when he was old enough,

The microwave-size instrument at Lila Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doesn’t look all that different from others that I’ve seen in

Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning out masses of

When the Palestinian stem-cell scientist Jacob Hanna was stopped while entering the US last May, airport customs agents took him

Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that

It’s the 25th of June and I’m shivering in my lab-issued underwear in Fort Worth, Texas. Libby Cowgill, an anthropologist

Be honest: Have you ever looked up someone from your childhood on social media with the sole intention of seeing

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When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost

In today's interconnected world, learning a second language has become more important than ever. It is not only a valuable