This is the brief story of how a couple of windsurfers decided to generate wind energy using kites! — Kites. Yes, the same ones you’ve unsuccessfully tried to mount at the beach when you were 10. But also the ones that the Chinese used in the military to lift men up 1000 years ago. So it’s no secret these things have power. A lot of it. It wasn’t before…

Ever put on snow pants on a December winter day? The cold scrunchy fabric tightening against your skin tends to feel incredibly uncomfortable… it definitely never helped that the ones I was given at15 years old were hot pink… But why wear such a piece of clothing? Answer: to bear…

Three billion years ago, bacteria developed an adaptive immune system. This immune system fights viral infections for the bacteria. In the 1970s, geneticists started focusing their attention on genome editing though it was not before March 2011 that Jennifer Doubha and Emmanuelle Charpentier cracked the puzzle of the RNA and…