The lights went out in Texas during Winter Storm Uri. California's grid buckled under heat domes. Germany fired up coal plants when the wind stopped blowing. We've spent $5 trillion on solar panels and wind…
Introduction Remember Dolly the sheep? That fuzzy white lamb staring out from the cover of every science magazine in 1997, looking mildly confused about her sudden fame? For nearly three decades, she's been the poster…
Last month, a 67-year-old woman in Boston walked into Massachusetts General Hospital with an irregular heartbeat. Instead of immediately scheduling surgery, her cardiologist did something remarkable: he tested five different treatment approaches on her digital…
The semiconductor industry stands at an inflection point. For over five decades, Moore's Law—the observation that transistor density doubles approximately every two years—has been the North Star guiding chip development. But as we push against…
Introduction: The Fundamental Flaw Nobody Talks About We spend billions on serums and devices that work on averages, not on our skin today. As a scientist, I see this as a fundamental flaw in system…
The conversation about nuclear energy has been stuck in the same groove for decades. We talk about baseload power, we debate grid reliability, we argue about whether renewables can do it all. Meanwhile, the real…
Last month, a farmer in Iowa lost $200,000 worth of corn. Not to drought. Not to pests you could see. To a nitrogen deficiency his eyes couldn't detect until it was too late. Three states…
The wheat field that survived last summer's record-breaking drought wasn't lucky. It was designed that way. While most of agriculture still operates on principles older than the combustion engine—plant seeds, pray for good weather, hope…
Introduction: The 70% Problem That Won't Die Here's an uncomfortable truth that keeps petroleum engineers awake at night: After spending over a century perfecting our craft, we still leave roughly 70% of discovered oil in…
The smartphone in your pocket has a dirty secret. So does that gleaming Tesla in your neighbor's driveway. They're both powered by technology that's fundamentally the same as what Sony commercialized in 1991. Sure, we've…
