Climate change is almost too big a problem to study. The solution? Volcanoes.

Volcanoes blanketed by tropical rainforests are a natural laboratory to study climate change

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Being a Pokémon Master in childhood permanently alters your brain

Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids

Joel Michael Reynolds, UMass Lowell

Neuroscience should take sex differences in the brain more seriously

Aarthi Gobinath, Neuroscience

1 peer comment

Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

3 peer comments

In the ruling against Caster Semenya, bogus science is being used to stifle the vulnerable

Sarah Laframboise, University of Ottawa

1 peer comment

Meet Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, the first American-born woman to win a Nobel Prize, who let doctors see into your blood

Jordan Harrod, Harvard University

Meet Dorothy Hodgkin, the biochemist who pieced together penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12

Chelsea Weidman, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine

Organic food is booming, but it's grinding field laborers into the dirt

Nicholas, UC Berkeley

2 peer comments

Great minds think differently - supporting neurodiversity benefits scientific progress

Academia needs to accept that not everyone’s brain functions in the same way.

Susanna Harris, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Juan Pablo Ruiz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Scientists are fostering public trust on social media, one selfie at a time

Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered the magic numbers at the center of atoms

Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

What if we treated all sick people the way we treat people with a terminal disease?

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2 peer comments

Maria Kirch was the first woman to discover a comet, but her husband took the credit

JoEllen McBride, Astrophysics

Bioengineered yeast can produce the active ingredients of marijuana better than the plant

Sarah Laframboise, University of Ottawa

7 peer comments

With inspiration from shark skin, redesigned oil tanker hulls could keep the oceans clean

Patricia Fernandez

3 peer comments

There won't be a cure for Alzheimer's disease in our lifetime

Norman A. Paradis, Dartmouth College

Netflix's Our Planet showed walruses in distress. We need to find what humanity's role is

Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

1 peer comment

David Hu sells quirky research with an apartment full of snakes

"How To Walk On Water And Climb Up Walls" welcomes readers to the strange world of biolocomotion

Laura Mast, Georgia Institute of Technology

Reducing agricultural carbon emissions will be good for the planet and our stomachs

Lauren McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

3 peer comments

While Congress does nothing, New York City passed its own climate legislation

The medical jump from mice to humans just got easier

Kimberly McCoy, Biochemistry

4 peer comments

Garbage mitochondria may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease

Claudia Lopez, University of Pennsylvania

2 peer comments

When finding a mate, intelligence matters to female parakeets

Therese Koch, Neuroscience

2 peer comments

Meet mathematician Emmy Noether, mother of the most beautiful theorem in the world

Brittney Borowiec, McMaster University

Humans are two developmental stages away from monkeys

James R. Howe VI, UC San Diego

2 peer comments

Meet Maria Mitchell, the first American to discover a comet

Laetitia Meyrueix, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

The secret code of sea shells

What drives artistically illiterate clams and snails to craft such perfection?

Harini Chakravarthy, Biochemistry

Robyn Metcalfe hits dead ends in her quest to rethink agriculture

Kevin Pels, The Scripps Research Institute

Blue whales and orcas and more form an emotional bond with humans in "The Breath of a Whale"

JENNIFER HOWARD, Wake Forest University

Do animals hear music? "The Evolving Animal Orchestra" follows a decade on the beat

Jennifer Tsang, Microbiology

Meet Elisa Izaurralde, who decrypted the mystery of messenger RNA

Kimberly McCoy, Biochemistry

Science has to do better for its queer, trans, and non-binary scientists

Lila Leatherman, Oregon State University

Climate change is causing floods all over the world. Here's what you can do to help

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change

Max Levy, University of Colorado Boulder

Who decides when life begins? How do we define a disease? What kind of gene edits should be allowed?

Bahar Gholipour

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