Lina Zeldovich
What the Webb Telescope Really Showed Us About the Cosmos’ Beginning
And how the family business first took me there.
What Makes Us Bold
A parasite infection can make a leader of the pack—or a dead wolf.
Yes, Your Loud Neighbors Are Driving You Bonkers
Why are we so sensitive to residential noise?
Don’t Worry If Your Kids Aren’t Polite to Alexa
The ubiquitous AI assistants are gathering huge amounts of data on them.
The Invasion of the Super Insects
New generations of insects are devouring Earth’s forests. Humans helped breed them—can we help stop them?
We Only Think We Flush It Away
8 waste products that come back to haunt us.
Why AI Needs a Genome
AI could learn and adapt like humans with algorithms that work like genes.
This Is Some Good Shit
How the sewage plant in our nation’s capital spins human poop into fertilizer gold.
My 3 Greatest Revelations
The author on writing her new book, “The Other Dark Matter.”
Triggering the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer
Experiments once considered crazy are now helping scientists attack tumors.