Browsing: Yvonne Bang

How Earth’s seas get around.

Survival shows are running amok. The contestants are naked; they’re two out-of-shape guys in the woods; they’re stuck on an island. Despite differences in attire or setting, one thing remains constant: For every survivor, finding potable water is the first order of business. But the challenge doesn’t end there: First they find water; then they […]

No matter how safe the lab is, humans working with deadly bioagents can make errors.

Tommy George and the Agents of SHIELD shot a Nerf ball and erased a whiteboard.

Meet the avalanche engineers of the Subzero Laboratory.

Love notes and warning messages are buried in Earth’s frozen archive.

Engineer Joshua Pearce explains how to feed 7 billion people after a global catastrophe.

Of all of the wondrous feats accomplished by Willy Wonka in his candy factory, the most impressive may have been wedging an entire meal into just one unassuming stick of gum: Upon popping it in your mouth and chewing, you’d first taste tomato soup, then roast beef and baked potato, and finally blueberry pie and […]

In Ethiopia, evolution is not a threat to people of faith.