Author: Terrence Cons

In West Africa, a model for worldwide conservation takes root.

Peculiar shapes were the key to realizing that galaxies merge.

Life, death, and Sputnik.

Imagine a bowl of half-cooked beans coated in a layer of fibrous, white mold. Dotted across the surface of the mold are little black and blue spores. It smells faintly of ammonia. Sound appetizing? It might seem too much like the remnants of last week’s edamame, but that moldy bean cake, or tempeh, is a […]

A composer details how music works its magic on our brains.

We bend time to make our world make sense.

We think of our future selves as strangers.

What happened before the Big Bang?

The Elephant’s Foot could be the most dangerous piece of waste in the world.

Many common air pollutants—ozone, various sulfur oxides, and even some particulate matter among them—are completely invisible to the eye. How interesting, then, that the EPA and other environmental organizations around the world, use color scales to communicate information about air quality. The US Air Quality Index, for instance, starts at green, meaning good air quality, moves […]