Until recently, I was an agar-agar novice. I didn't grow up eating gelatin desserts like many of my friends, and I never really liked things with a jiggly consistency on those few rare occasions I ...

Russell Reed is an interdisciplinary environmentalist dedicated to building a more inclusive environmental movement. He is a founding member of Sway, a company building seaweed-based replacements for ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to ...