As the world faces a global health catastrophe from drug-resistant microbes, one scientists is searching the natural world for the antibiotics of the future.
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Mother Science
Uterine transplants are frontier science, but they offer hope of possibility for trans women and others seeking parenthood.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Food, Quotes, Science & Nature
“Beef and cheese are the most important ingredients… But really, cheese.”
Who’s moving America’s (1.3 billion pounds of) cheese? The Dairy Management Institute
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
What Falls to Earth
Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
What Falls to Earth
Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.
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Who Was She? A DNA Test Only Opened New Mysteries
For most of her life, Alice Collins Plebuch believed she was the daughter of Irish Americans. A DNA test upended everything she thought she knew about her family history.
Posted inNonfiction
Where Am I?
After a lifetime of alienation, one woman discovered how her spacial disorientation could be a gift that connected her to strangers and made her less alone.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Banished
After passing a series of restrictive housing laws, Miami-Dade County faces an odd predicament: bands of nomadic sex offenders and a cat-and-mouse game to move them.
Posted inBooks, History, Story
Nell Battle Lewis, Storyteller for Jim Crow
How an otherwise high-minded social reformer preserved and perpetuated her white supremacist worldview.
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In the future, your body won’t be buried…you’ll dissolve
For humans over the centuries, our dead have been embalmed, buried, and cremated. Now, a process called alkaline hydrolysis — using a machine called the Resomator — is being called a more environmental, less expensive, and attractive alternative.
