Claudia Geib is a freelance science journalist and a graduate of the MIT Master's Program in Science Writing.
Despite what you may hear from daytime talk shows or read in self-help books, science has roundly debunked the idea that there’s any such thing as the “female brain” or the “male brain.” ...
Antarctica: a desolate, penguin-populated ice desert. It may not seem like a place where we’d be surprised to find more snow. Yet scientists recently announced the discovery that this sou...
Admit it, you’ve done it: you notice a strange ache or a bump where there wasn’t one before, so you run to the internet. In mere minutes, you’re convinced you have cancer, or a parasite, ...
Here’s a riddle for you: What’s nearly invisible, ubiquitous throughout the world, and produces at least fifty percent of the oxygen in our atmosphere while removing much of its carbon di...
Most of your everyday electronics run off of lithium batteries — you know, the ones that you can never seem to find in your drawer when the remote is dead? Yet the days of the double-A ma...
In brief
People in the early 20th century were hopeful about the future innovation might bring. The technology that came out of World War I, and the growing potential brought by electricity (half ...
IN BRIEF
In brief
In brief
