Today, more than 90% of the indexed articles in the natural sciences are published in English. That wasn’t always the case. During Michael Gordin’s childhood, his mother—who grew up speaking French ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...