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Microbiology

The Executioner We Can’t Live Without

You’re dead meat without special molecules that kill rotten proteins.

March 26, 2015

Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age Either

Anxious distillers are trying to make bourbon old before its time.

March 4, 2015

How to Turn Your Dog Off

Suspended animation is becoming a life-saving medical procedure.

March 2, 2015

Teen MacGyver Invents Battery to Save the Planet

14-year-old creates eco-battery with aluminum foil, old guitar strings, and club soda.

December 23, 2014

The Last Word with Diane Ackerman

Magnifying our mutant, turbulent, symmetrical natures.

September 26, 2014

Should Science Save Modern Art?

Keeping Father Time at bay is more than a question of chemistry.

January 21, 2014

Bacteria Love Lasered Jell-O

How artificial homes for pathogens may lead to better medicine.

December 2, 2013

Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters

From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash.

November 11, 2013