Environment
How Humans Get in the Way of Clean Water
There are many cheap and effective ways to provide safe water to the world’s poor regions. But projects often fail due to inadequate planning, maintenance or persuasive power
Stories by Lindzi Wessel
Biology
Sticky Science: the Evolution of Spider Webs
*The eight-legged weavers have been hunting insects for almost 400 million years, flaunting their long history in a rich array of architectures
Biology
Searching for Chocolate’s Roots, and Enemies, in Colombia’s Wilderness
A newfound peace has spurred the hunt for disease-resistant wild cacao within the nation’s borders
Medicine
Flawed Herpes Testing Leads to False Positives and Needless Suffering
Blood tests can be highly unreliable
Public Health
To Prevent Disease, Stop Kissing and Snuggling Your Chickens
Backyard flocks blamed for number of salmonella outbreaks
Public Health
Superbug Resistant to 2 Last-Resort Antibiotics Found in U.S. for First Time
The worrisome combination has been detected before in other countries
The Body
Is There Such a Thing as "Fat but Fit"?
These findings indicate that fat cells in obese people do something different than in healthy people
