Defeating Bacteria From the Inside Out
The world’s most ubiquitous organism could save millions of lives — if only they could get a new tryout.
Can Farmed Fish Flourish on a Veggie Diet?
It’s a fish-eat-fish world out there, which is bad news for ailing fisheries providing feedstock for aquaculture. If only some key dinner-table species were vegetarians, smaller fish would be spared.
Among Antibiotics, Resistance Knows No Bounds
A microbiologist on the front lines of antibiotic resistance sees a lot of ways to improve the search and development of new antimicrobials.
Building Cities With Sustainability in Mind
Municipal waste — from poop to heat — can be a valuable resource that could run our cities more cheaply and sustainably, says a hands-on Canadian ecologist.
Pollinating Local Is the New Buzz
An annual Woodstock for honeybees highlights one of the factors leading to the pollinators' decline in North America. Perhaps keeping bees at home is the solution.
Teaming with Technology to Fight TB and HIV
Tuberculosis and HIV are both high-profile global health scourges, but surprisingly little focus has been paid on treating them when they team up.
Balancing the Power of Offshore Wind
Fears that wind only provides power when it's blowing outside could be neutralized by drawing from a wide area — like the U.S. Atlantic coast.
Shining Light on Clean Energy Superbugs
Overcoming some of the obstacles that have hindered petri-dish-to-gas-pump schemes in the past, scientists are finding ways to produce high-octane fuel and even pure hydrogen from co-opted algae.
New Agency Puts Clean Energy on Front Burner
While Arunava Majumdar says America urgently needs to come up with clean-energy “game changers,” until now there hasn’t been a systematic approach to develop them.
The Empowering Power of Ice
Blocks of ice are joining molten salt and compressed air as ways to deliver yesterday's energy when it's wanted today.