Scientists turn pee into power
With conventional fuel cells as their model, researchers learned to use similar chemical reactions to make a fuel from microbes in pee.
To stave off Alzheimer’s, protect your brain’s mitochondria
Decades of Alzheimer’s research might have missed a cellular culprit hiding in plain sight.
Sexual Harassment Still Pervades Science
How academic institutions can prevent sexual harassment and protect scientists
Embracing the strange pleasure of winter open water swimming
when my head slips under, I become a water creature.
Russia Should Pay for Its Environmental War Crimes
The legal challenges are steep, but scientists are recording the war’s devastating impact on Ukraine’s land and wildlife.
Book Review: Behind the Quest for Eternal Life
In “The Price of Immortality,” author Peter Ward weighs products, promises, and scientific advances on their relative likelihood of...
“Spooky” quantum biology might cause your DNA to mutate
Who knew theoretical physics could reach out and touch us?
Let’s Get Our Shit Together—Literally
It’s time to build the Poop Ark, a centralized collection of the entire animal kingdom's feces, for research, de-extinction, and more.
In defence of snags, the bones of the forest
I wrote this for The Globe and Mail, in a few hours, after returning home from a trip to Mount Ranier National Park "Not long ago, after...
Book Review: The Past, Present, and Future of Poop
In “The Other Dark Matter,” Lina Zeldovich surveys the history and science of how human sewage is handled. When you are interested in...
