The wind whipped my face as I stood huddled with two hundred people on the Capitol steps. Last month, volunteers and advocates, carrying notepads, pins,
Preface: The last magazine of each calendar year is, as per Yale Scientific Magazine tradition, a themed special issue. This letter, co-written by your outgoing
Image Courtesy of Pixabay. Dust surrounds us constantly, invisible particles floating in the air before settling in fuzzy gray clumps. But instead of just being
Image Courtesy of Flickr. It’s in the very air we breathe. Invisible gases, small but pervasive, travel and lodge themselves in our airways as we
Carl Zimmer’s award-winning science journalism regularly features in the New York Times. A Yale alum (’87) and professor adjunct, Zimmer has also authored fourteen books.