Speaking for Trees
As head of American Forests, Jad Daley ’90 looks to the woods to help solve climate change.
Science & Tech
Alien Worlds
A new book of short stories from award-winning author Ted Chiang ’89
Every Bright Mind
Jill Pipher, Brown’s vice president for research, on how Brown is opening new frontiers.
Digging for Answers
An archaeologist finds clues in the wilds of central Alaska
Reprogramming Mother Nature
Experiments with coding animal genes stand to teach us a lot about ourselves.
Adios, Amniocentesis?
Testing for genetic abnormalities with a simple swab of the cervix
Robo-Farmer
Can artificial intelligence make growing crops sustainable?
Space Flight
Jessica Meir ’99 takes her first giant leap to the International Space Station
Apollo 2019
A planetary science grad student on the 1969 moonwalk that fuels her lunar studies
Hi-Tech Ethics
Can CS majors save the world? The founders of a student startup think so.
Puzzling Days
Powerful brains at work for the annual MIT Mystery Hunt
World Wide Beginnings
The web’s roots at Brown
No Accident
Human conception can happen a little too easily—or it can seem almost impossible.
Forever Light
The sun will trace an infinity symbol on a new campus sundial
Up, Up, and Away
A competition for personal flying machines
Seeing Stars
A new eyewear company that lets customers design the glasses
Continental Scale
Beth Conover ’87 heads up a new policy center with far-reaching conservation goals
Pathology Breakthrough?
Betting on AI to revolutionize how we detect and treat serious disease
The Skinny on Big Data
It may allow corporations to know more about you than you’d like—but it can also be a force for good.
The Ideal Robot
Beyond functional to “part of the family”
Eye on the Sky
A soldier-scientist’s dreams take flight
Figure It Out!
A biomedical engineering class addresses real-world problems
Robots Gone Rogue
New in cyber insecurity: hackable research robots
On the Neural Frontier
Mapping the body’s most complex organ in surprising new ways.