In a race against time and the enemy, J. Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced from the Manhattan Project entirely—why?
At 64, Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida. How'd she do it?
The athlete’s record-breaking swim in 2013 is the subject of an upcoming Netflix film. Here’s what her body endured during those 110 miles in open water.
Is There Nothing E. coli Cannot Do? Part Two of a Continuing Series…
In my new Dissection column over at Wired, I take a look at a remarkable new experiment on E. coli. Scientists randomly rewired the network of genes that control much of the microbe’s activity and found that it generally just kept humming along. One thing worth adding…in an accompanying commentary, Matthew Bennett and Jeff Hasty […]