Kelsey Piper
Contributing editor
Latest articles by Kelsey Piper
Why we need empathy at the hardest moments
Katalin Karikó co-won a Nobel Prize this week for her groundbreaking work on mRNA vaccines — but she had to fight against professional science to do it.
How Bangladesh removed lead from turmeric spice — and saved lives.
DEEP VZN aimed to discover viruses in wildlife that could threaten humans, but the risks weren’t worth the rewards.
The limitations of our process for defending scientific research.
Technology improves over time, but it’s hard to know what that means when it comes to calculating the social cost of carbon.
A Harvard professor accused of research fraud brings a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university and her accusers. What comes next?
If AI really is risky, then opening it up could be a major mistake.
Congress is grappling with the security concerns of the DNA synthesis revolution.
It turns out there was an “unlikely” chance the first atomic bomb could have ignited the atmosphere — which didn’t stop the Manhattan Project.