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Justin Brown is co-founder of Brown Brothers Media, the publisher of Science Blog. He writes about how scientific ideas move through institutions, media, and power, drawing on a background in economic history and political economy (LSE). On Science Blog his persistent focuses are science and institutions, how discoveries become public stories, technology that rearranges society, and the human consequences of scientific systems.
When a middle schooler cracked an accessibility problem that the technology industry had left unsolved for decades, major investors took notice.
Sep 22, 2026
A genetic adaptation allows one Indonesian community to thrive where others would drown, rewriting what we thought possible about human evolution in a single generation.
Sep 22, 2026
Engineers use a simple pipe to prevent a lake from releasing the invisible killer that suffocated an entire region in 1986.
Sep 22, 2026
One container off the Ever Laurel held 28,800 plastic bath toys with a known release date and position — an unfunded drift experiment. The first hundreds beached near Sitka within months. The rest went around the subarctic gyre, and a few reached the Atlantic.
Sep 22, 2026
A speck of ancient chewed tar has yielded the complete genetic blueprint of a Stone Age woman, revealing not just her DNA but her appearance, diet, and the intimate details of her last meal.
Sep 22, 2026
