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Non-Alcoholic Beer

Many health-conscious beer lovers, who have been looking for suds without the buzz, just haven't found the right brew. The problem is that alternatives, with less alcohol, don't taste like the real thing — not even close. Point Five, a new easy-drinking pilsner with alcohol...

The Download with a map-and-compass guy

Harvard professor John Huth is an experimental particle physicist who was on the team that discovered the Higgs boson. He teaches an undergraduate course on primitive navigation at the university, and is the author of The Lost Art of Finding Our Way. The professor, whose...

The Download with An Old-Fashioned Novelist

Allegra Goodman is a novelist who lives in Cambridge, MA. She is married to David Karger, a professor at MIT. She is a mother of four. She uses a computer to write, but she prints out the draft, and edits by hand. Then, she types...

The Download with Prof. Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT and a psychologist by training researches the relationship between humans and technology. Her recent writing has focused on how new forms of communication – email, texting, and social media – are affecting our lives. In her latest book, Reclaiming...

Jellies tell the story of the oceans’ woes

Almost everything humans are doing to the ocean that is bad for most marine organisms – overfishing, pollution, rising sea temperatures, acidification, coastal construction, and the like – turns out to be good for jellies. “Like the proverbial miner’s canary, jellyfish act as environmental indicators,”...

Probiotic-laced Parfait to Detect Liver Cancer

Forget blood tests—this parfait pees the truth. Scientists have developed a yogurt-based diagnostic that uses engineered probiotics to detect liver cancer in mice, offering a snackable, non-invasive alternative to imaging In a study published in this week’s issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers present a...