Art Courtesy of Lynn Dai. Sometimes, our immune cells stage a mutiny, turning their defensive weapons against the body they’re meant to protect. This betrayal is the defining feature of autoimmune disorders: the immune system, which typically protects us from germs and foreign substances, begins to mistake our own cells as foreign threats—so it attacks. […]

Art Courtesy of Luna Aguilar. Blink, and you’ll miss it—scientists at the STAR Collaboration, an international effort, are smashing metal ions together at nearly the speed of light, unleashing an unfathomable amount of energy with each impact. For a brief fraction of a second, the colliding atoms are broken down not merely into protons and […]

Art Courtesy of Alondra Moreno Santana. In the depths of the midnight zone, where sunlight fails to penetrate and water pressure exceeds extremes, anglerfish have discovered an ocean of rich opportunity. This species has evolved to thrive over sixteen thousand feet below sea level, while exhibiting one of the highest levels of species diversity found […]

Art Courtesy of Hannah Dirsa. Measles was first introduced to Fiji in 1875. It died out only six months after its debut.  The introduction of measles to the Pacific Islands is often painted as a straightforward superspreader event, but the reality is that measles didn’t become the outbreak we know it as until it was […]

Art Courtesy of Madeleine Popofsky. In today’s sustainability-driven world, resource recovery—the extraction of valuable materials from waste—has become increasingly important. Certain metals, including cobalt, nickel, and copper, are essential for key sustainable technologies like electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines, but their supply is limited. This scarcity, coupled with a pressing demand, has earned them […]