Kristen French

How a soft-bodied machine uses physical intelligence to navigate.

Why we need to study the microbiology of disasters.

How a composer is working with NASA scientists to shift our thinking about obsolescence.

How social media helped a scientist uncover a new, golden-haired species.

Scientists are studying them to help protect endangered host species.

Can tiny forests deliver on big environmental problems?

Solving nature’s greatest Gordian knot.

A new analysis shows the most widely cited happiness studies relied on poor research methods.

We can rewrite the script on bad dreams.

Scientists have learned smell loss can be a diagnostic tool for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Across the US and around the world, foghorns have disappeared from the coastal landscape.

The winner of 2023’s Best Illusion of the Year contest on the nature of science and magic.