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.
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 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
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 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
When billions of boneless creatures with no brain shut down a continent's power plants, nuclear engineers discover that cooling systems designed to withstand storms are defenseless against the sea itself.
Aug 31, 2026
A teenager's kitchen experiment with fruit waste outperformed industrial polymers and caught the attention of Google, offering hope to farmers watching their fields wither in Africa's worst drought in over a century.
Aug 29, 2026
A well-meaning gift of American fish became an ecological catastrophe that haunted the emperor for decades.
Aug 29, 2026
A teenager expelled for unpaid fees scavenged scrap metal and bicycle parts to build a windmill that transformed his village—and proved that ingenuity thrives where resources don't.
Aug 27, 2026
A child's backyard experiment challenges what neuroscience thought it knew about memory, proving that something persists through the radical dissolution of a butterfly's brain.
Aug 26, 2026
