Ferris Jabr takes sign language at the AAAS conference and makes this wonderful piece out of it. Superb.

The story of JonathanJoshua Foer, a journalist who trained himself for the US Memory Championship & achieved record-breaking success

This is wonderful and, I predict, will be increasingly common as interdisciplinary science becomes the norm. Kate Clancy and SciCurious tag-team a study on that time of the month, each covering their own speciality

If it wasn’t bad enough that few new antibiotics are in development, we’re running out of the ones we have. By Maryn Mckenna