- September 4, 2025
Inside a mosquito factory
There’s an unusual factory in Curitiba, Brazil. It’s producing mosquitos by the millions, all to combat the diseases these insects
Clarity or accuracy — what makes a good scientific image?
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Anika Burgess W. W.
Why scientists are flocking to Substack
Adapted from Filo/Getty Like many epidemiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic, Katelyn Jetelina turned to social media to help keep people
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Credit: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Long-term exposure to extreme heat events accelerates the body’s ageing process and increases
Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
In 2024, the global average annual temperature exceeded 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Greenhouse-gas emissions are rising,
How citizen science can help to solve the global freshwater crisis
We are living through a global freshwater crisis: in 2014, humanity used five times as much water as it did
Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force
A microscopic view of a nine-day-old human embryo shows a protein found in embryonic stem cells in green, developing tissue
Many planets might be born with orbits misaligned from the spin of their stars
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 13 August 2025 An analysis of the geometry of young Sun-like stars with planet-forming disks, measured by ground-
Six questions to ask before jumping into a spreadsheet
Ask a bunch of scientists whether they use spreadsheets in their work and you’re bound to touch a nerve. Many
These genes can have the opposite effects depending on which parent they came from
The effect of a gene can vary greatly — and sometimes be the complete opposite — depending on whether it