In the late 1980s, at a federal research facility in Pensacola, Florida, Tamar Barkay used mud in a way that proved revolutionary in a manner she could never have imagined at the time: a crude version of a technique that is now shaking up many scientific fields. Barkay had collected several samples

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to create transparent wood, and he published

In 2017, manufacturers were mass producing over a million bicycles a month to meet the demand of bike sharing companies. While the bikes were hailed for being cheap and environmentally friendly, they were also easily damaged, vandalized, stolen or abandoned by their millions of users. As a

Shifting to battery-powered vehicles is an essential step in tackling climate change, but it’s also creating worryingly large amounts of e-waste and demand for environmentally damaging mining. A new partnership to produce batteries made with recycled materials could help address the problem. While

Environmentalists have several things that cause them to lose sleep at night: deforestation, overpopulation, melting of polar ice caps, tennis balls. Wait, what? That’s right. With the US Open currently taking place in Flushing Meadows, environmentalists want to remind the world that tennis balls