Bioengineering
Spatial Tissue Profiling in Biomedical Research
How spatial tissue profiling combines imaging and molecular data to study the organization of cells and tissues.
AI & scientific discovery
Science in the age of AI.
How AI is changing mathematics, biology and chemistry—and the questions scientists can ask.
Across disciplines
Selected reading
From the archive
Selected reading
Physics
LIGO’s Frequency Dependent Squeezing Breaks Quantum Limits
How LIGO uses frequency-dependent squeezing to reduce quantum noise and improve its sensitivity to gravitational waves.
From the archive
Abubakari Zarouk Imoro’s sewage-treatment research
A profile of Abubakari Zarouk Imoro and the sewage-treatment research behind his Africa Prize nomination in 2024.
Curated reading
A way into the subject.
Developing frontier
AI and scientific discovery
From a proposed answer to a result that can be tested. Mathematics, molecules and environmental measurements offer different views of the same changing frontier.
4 articles Idea across disciplinesMeasuring the invisible
Gravitational waves and attosecond light pulses: two ways to ask what an instrument can reveal.
2 articles Problem in the worldGhana’s changing environment
Heat, flooding and environmental research, with a view toward the decisions and infrastructure they affect.
4 articlesFollow a question
An answer opens
another question.
Move between the ideas, evidence and unresolved questions behind a scientific result. Choose where to go next.
Follow the connectionsImmerse
See the idea.
Stay with it.
Read scene by scene, with room for a figure to move and an argument to unfold.
Enter immersionA glimpse inside / Mathematics
Why do odd numbers make squares?
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 = 5²
Each new layer adds the next odd number. The square grows by one row and one column.
Opportunities
Your next research chapter.
Browse past PhD, graduate study and research notices. New openings appear here once their availability has been checked.
Visit the historical archiveContribute to 99Science
A question worth asking.
A story worth telling.
Pitch a story, explain your research, send a draft or share a research opportunity. Keep track of your submissions from your account.