Brendan Brown writes for Science Blog on natural history and the history of science. He founded The Expert Editor, a professional editing practice, in 2012, and spent years editing manuscripts before writing for the publication.
One man's obsession with preserving a Maine island forced him to choose between family wealth and American wilderness, a choice he made over and over again until there was nothing left.
Sep 13, 2026
What was written off as a wasteland has become a test case for whether enough money and vision can restore an ecosystem to its former abundance.
Sep 13, 2026
A city's desperate bid to escape its own waste became an engineering marvel that still defies the laws of nature—and the fury of its downstream neighbors.
Sep 12, 2026
A sculptor's obsession with permanence created a time capsule beneath the mountain, betting that some future civilization will know how to find it.
Sep 12, 2026
A Yale explorer's celebrated 1911 "discovery" of Machu Picchu overlooked an inconvenient truth: local families already lived there, and the ruins weren't lost at all.
Sep 11, 2026
A medieval tower that defied physics for eight centuries finally met its match—not in collapse, but in a delicate 11-year rescue that proved engineers could outwit gravity itself.
Sep 11, 2026
What was once freely chipped away as souvenirs became so scandalous that Stonehenge had to be locked away from the public entirely.
Sep 11, 2026
A clever fix for urban heat had an uncomfortable side effect: redirecting the sun's energy straight toward pedestrians instead of into the ground.
Sep 7, 2026
When a highway became a deadly barrier to evolution itself, engineers built an invisible detour that wild animals instinctively learned to use.
Sep 6, 2026
The Great Green Wall is one of the grandest ideas of the century: a band of vegetation 8,000 kilometers long, stretching across the entire width of Africa from Senegal to Djibouti, holding the line of the Sahel against the advancing Sahara.
Sep 6, 2026
Grazing sheep beneath solar panels cuts maintenance costs while producing wool that outperforms wool from conventional pastures, suggesting a new model for how farms might share land in a climate-conscious future.
Sep 6, 2026
A Swedish family controls a third of their nation's stock market, yet their real power lies in an ingenious loophole: foundations that channel corporate profits into science instead of personal wealth.
Sep 1, 2026
A Kenyan boy's improvised light show stopped a lion's nightly raids where tradition and fire could not, sparking a solution that spread across the region faster than anyone expected.
Sep 1, 2026
When a teenager's homework time disappeared into laundry chores, she pedaled toward a solution that caught India's attention.
Aug 31, 2026
