Author: Marchelle Calnan

Is a third-act twist to nuclear energy at hand?

scion via Shutterstock Just south of the equator, thirty miles off the coast of Tanzania, sits a small island called Pemba. The small patch of dry land jutting out from the Indian Ocean is just 30 miles long and 10 miles wide. The quarter million or so people who inhabit Pemba live more or less […]

Layers of history beckon with imperfect memories.

Sarah Horrigan via Flickr Keeping a secret can be hard work. It may seem relatively easy to avoid mentioning your friend’s surprise birthday party or your co-worker’s recent breakup, but concealing even trivial information, let alone important things, can be exhausting. When keeping a secret, we have to constantly monitor what we say to make […]

Debating a modern parable about waste and technology.

How identical twins Mike and Bob Bryan serve science.

Turning bacteria against each other can help fight antibiotic resistance.

Discover genes that unite life on earth.

Why do things go viral, and should we care?

If we are to learn how to die, we need teachers.