Jennifer Weeks

Humans owe a huge medical debt to horseshoe crabs. Now there’s an opportunity to pay it back.

In the 1960s chemists created artificial turf. But are synthetic fields better than natural grass?

For decades science journalists peacefully worked their beat. But trouble came to their ostensibly objective world. How did science writers get caught in the crossfire of the culture wars?

How did the Hanford nuclear facility become one of America’s most vexing environmental challenges? Jennifer Weeks explores the history and future of the site.