Why Newfoundland and Labrador is facing a hard bread shortage - A fire at Purity’s factory in March disrupted baking operations, leaving grocery stores across Newfoundland and Labrador struggling to keep hard bread in stock. The piece also looks at the long history of this
Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle - A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine.
The lifesaving secret hidden in horseshoe crab blue blood—and the race to protect the species - Horseshoe crabs have helped make injectable medicines safer for decades, but heavy harvests for bait and blood have helped drive down East Coast populations. In Massachusetts, new
The hardest working font in Manhattan - A deep dive into Gorton, a 150-year-old engraving font that turned up on keyboards, signs, controls, and even Apollo hardware. The piece traces how a once-obscure routing font spread far beyond its original machines and became one of the
