Rubric 01
Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
217Science
Underwater Perovskite Solar Cells Generate Power in Deep Sea
Solar cells made from perovskites instead of silicon have always involved trade offs. They can be produced cheaply. They can take unusual forms, such as thin, flexible, transparent films. They can convert a...
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218Science
AI and De-Extinction: Rewriting Extinction With Code
The path toward bringing back vanished species did not begin with a grand plan. It began with a tool built for something else entirely. Machine learning systems designed to parse human language and recognize patterns in...
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219Science
GDP Alone Cant Measure a Nations True Health
For most of the last eighty years, a nation's health has been read off one figure: gross domestic product, the total market value of goods and services a country produces in a year. That number was never designed to...
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220Science
Cosmic Origins of Elements in the Human Body
Every atom of hydrogen in the human body, and every hydrogen atom in every drop of water on Earth, traces back to the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. That single sentence...
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221Science
Nigeria Builds Its Own Brain Science Pipeline
The Neuroscience Society of Nigeria has called for the country to stop relying on research produced elsewhere and instead build a system that answers its own health and social questions. Dr Angela Danborno, the...
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222Science
Nasal vaccines aim to block COVID transmission at the source
The technology did not start out as a pandemic tool. It began as a way to protect children from a seasonal illness that has circulated for decades. FluMist, a nasal spray influenza vaccine, was designed for exactly that...
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223Science
Norwegian Family Genetic Study Rewrites Trait Inheritance Rules
For decades, geneticists studying human traits faced a stubborn limitation: they could measure a person's genes, or they could measure a person's environment, but rarely both at once. The Norwegian Mother, Father and...
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224Science
Six ways to get drugs where they need to go
A drug can be perfect in the test tube and useless in the body. That is the uncomfortable arithmetic at the center of a special collection published by Nature The best medicines go exactly where they are needed in the...
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225Science
Bacterial Couriers for Targeted Cancer Drug Delivery
A bacterium that causes food poisoning would seem like the last thing a cancer patient needs. Yet the same properties that make certain bacteria dangerous their ability to survive hostile environments, to seek out...
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226Science
Drug Delivery Shift From Particles to Immune Tolerance
A drug that never reaches its target is not a weak drug — it is no drug at all. This is the plain arithmetic behind a body of work now collected under the heading of drug delivery, and it is the reason a single failed...
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227Science
Phone Tutoring Keeps Kids Learning When Schools Shut
For as long as mass schooling has existed, one question has resisted a clean answer: when a crisis shuts the school gates, what actually keeps a child learning? Pandemics, floods, earthquakes, and armed conflict have...
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228Science
AI in Doctoral Training Balancing Skills and Tools
Graduate students are adopting artificial intelligence tools at a pace that has outpaced the institutions meant to train them. Doctoral candidates now use these systems to search the literature, design presentations,...
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