Articles by

Max G. Levy

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...

Sorry, Prey. Black Widows Have Surprisingly Good Memory

Black widows must despise Clint Sergi. While working on his PhD in biology at the University of...

Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself? Neuroscientists Unravel the Mystery

In the new study’s first phase, each subject had their moment in front of the GoPros and...