Articles by

Max G. Levy

This Fake Skin Fools Mosquitoes—to Fight the Diseases They Spread

The world’s deadliest animal is a picky eater. Because they transmit viral diseases like Zika and chikungunya,...

The Case of the Incredibly Long-Lived Mouse Cells

“It’s probably one of the most extraordinary papers in immunology that I’ve seen, easily in the past...

The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem

Scientists have been pointing out the “broken” phosphorus cycle for more than a decade: Humanity has unearthed...

Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter

Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power...

The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver...

How the UN’s ‘Sex Agency’ Uses Tech to Save Mothers’ Lives

Toward the end of 2020, on a work trip to Chocó, Colombia, Jaime Aguirre came across a...

Scientists Reexamine Why Zebra Stripes Mysteriously Repel Flies

For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test...

The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real

The reason they could opt for a more information-dense bit is because of the physics of the...