Maddie Stone
This Alcohol-Producing Fish Can Give Up Oxygen
By animal standards, the desert pupfish's physiology is utterly alien.
The Plan to Turn Toxic Algal Blooms into Energy
How researchers want to turn one of our worst environmental problems into fuel for the future.
'Essentially, We Have Discovered a New Layer in the Earth'
An ultra-hard layer of rock is causing a geologic traffic jam nearly a thousand miles beneath our feet.
Centaurs Have Been Trashing the Earth for Eons, Study Says
A controversial study finds centaur comets may be responsible for devastating mass extinctions.
The Microbial Yearbook That Will Help Us Find Aliens
Scientists are discovering just how colorful our alien neighbors might be.
In the Future, Your City Could Change Colors Like an Octopus
Buildings cloaked in color-changing skins are close to reality.
X-Ray Bursts from the Center of the Galaxy Could Shape the Evolution of Life
By showering the sky with x-rays for thousands of years.
The Plan to Mop Up the World's Largest Oil Spill With Fungus
Can a team of radical biologists deploy mushrooms to absorb the Amazonian oil spills that have plagued the forest for decades?
Rainstorms of Molten Iron Showered the Early Earth
The world's most electrifying machine has simulated the heavy metal storms that helped form a young Earth.