The Good Virus
As bacterial diseases develop resistance to antibiotics, medical resarchers rediscover an older strategy: setting one microbe to kill another.
by Peter Radetsky
Tarzan's Little Brain
The cerebellum, long regarded as a simple neural middleman, may in fact be a powerful processor that turns the brain into a mind.
The Tarzan Syndrome
Only apes, it seems, alone among all the animals, can truly distinguish themselves fromt he world around them. But only the naked apes, apparently, can conceive of not just self but other.
Riddles in the Sand
Physicists completely understand a solitary grain of sand. Why, then, are they at a complete loss to explain a mere handful of the stuff?
Math Against Tyranny
Math shows our archaic electoral system safeguards democracy.
The Light at the Bottom of the Sea
Two miles below the surface of the sea, a mysterious glow emerges from cracks in the Earth. In that glow, the first steps to photosynthesis may have taken place, 3.8 billion years ago.