A slew of popular-science books have set out to convince readers that some overlooked, obscure or generally disdained category of thing is actually wildly important, whether it’s salt, garbage or ...

Barry Rosen squirts a few droplets of Caloosahatchee River water onto a glass slide. The nationally renowned scientist uses a little too much water and has to employ a plastic pipette to suck up the ...

From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our waterways are already filled with the stuff, why isn’t it filling the world’s skies with ...