For thousands of years people have wondered how the pyramids of Egypt were truly built. The Great Pyramid of Giza alone contains around 2.3 million limestone blocks, some weighing over 15 tons, yet ...

Sweat is seen as a simple response to heat or exercise. But the body rarely does anything without a reason. The way a person sweats, how much, when, and even where, can offer quiet clues about what is ...

Materials inspired by nature, or biomimetic materials, are nothing new. Scientists have designed water-resistant materials ...

When a monument had been centuries old and still had to change the subject matter, it must be the Giza Plateau. Even more than 4,000 years after the pyramids appeared on the desert fringe to the west ...

In 2013, the president of Rwanda asked us for evaluation results from across the continent that could provide lessons for his country’s policy decisions. One program tested in Kenya jumped out, and ...

April 2, 2026 • Freedom of the Seas. GPS. The Large Hadron Collider. These are all public goods that make our world more prosperous, accurate, and knowledgeable. But we don’t always give them the ...