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Jim Papadopoulos has spent a lifetime pondering the maths of bikes in motion. Now his work has found fresh momentum., Author(s): Brendan Borrell [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) Brendan Borrell is a journalist in New York City., Jim Papadopoulos sees a future with radically new bicycle designs. Adam Glanzman for Nature [...]

Jim Papadopoulos has spent a lifetime pondering bicycles in motion. His work, once nearly lost, has found fresh momentum. Seven bikes lean against the wall of Jim Papadopoulos's basement in [...]

Before leaving for the Philippines as an undergraduate in 1992, Rafe Brown scoured his supervisor's bookshelf to learn as much as he could about the creatures he might encounter. He [...]

For a while, Klaus Schulten did not mind the Godiva chocolates arriving in his team's mailboxes at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Nor was Schulten, whose biophysics group boasted [...]

Paulo Mazzafera punched a pea-sized disc out of a waxy green coffee leaf, then placed the disc in a small vial with a mixture of chloroform and methanol to dissolve [...]

A decade ago, as part of a study on diet, psychologist Tom Baranowski was asked to recall everything he had eaten the previous day. A chicken dinner, he said confidently, [...]

n her 25 years of research, Gail Prins, a reproductive physiologist at the University of Illinois in Chicago, had got used to doing science her way. But when her experiments [...]

Author(s): Brendan Borrell [1] [illus. 1] The death adders of Australia are not adders at all. Their closest relatives are cobras and coral snakes, but early naturalists were fooled by [...]

Author(s): Brendan Borrell [illus. 1] For a while, Klaus Schulten did not mind the Godiva chocolates arriving in his team's mailboxes at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Nor was [...]

One April day, a fisherman named Johan Norman reeled in a female cod near the Norwegian village of Moskenes, where snow-capped mountains rise straight from the sea. He measured the [...]