A reading and listening list for scientific anti-racism
Angry about the murder of George Floyd? Want to learn more? Start here
A transcendental visualization of pi, for Pi Day
Let your mind drift in the styles of Marcel Duchamp and Philip Glass
Buy your scientist Valentine books from our reading list
Our writers' recommendations for books about health, including pain, teeth, sex, and mental health
Massive's most popular stories from 2019, and the staff's personal favorites
What a year! Let's relax for a bit
A science holiday guide for the nerd in your life
Show people how much they mean to you with brain games, microbe toys, animal art, and more
Massive Science celebrates love, nature-style
Flowers, chocolate, and light-based mating dances
Scientists just cut the tolerable intake of PFAs by 99.9%
PFAs are everywhere. In cosmetics, wrapping your greasy take-out burgers, and eventually, 98% of humans' bloodstreams. The recommended tolerable intake for PFAs was just cut by 99.9%.
What have we learned from science's most infamous doctor-patient relationship?
Reanimation! is a seven-part, animated series on the lasting impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'
Watch Nadja Oertelt's TEDMED talk, now online
Massive's CCO gave the Hive talk in November 2017
Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, an inspiration to scientists
Le Guin was a testament to how fiction reveals truth, empathy, and the beauty of knowledge
Seeking: scientists who want to write impactful climate stories
Apply for free training in science storytelling, two published articles, and a place in our vibrant community of peers
4 incredible fossils found by paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey
Meet the British anthropologist who completely changed our understanding of the hominid ancestral tree
Meet the woman who changed how we treat cancer
Jane Cooke Wright saved millions by making chemotherapy more effective
Meet Sau Lan Wu, the physicist who helped discover three fundamental particles
Most scientists spend their careers hoping for a single big discovery. Sau Lan Wu has had three and is still searching for more.
Meet the first Black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry
Marie Maynard Daly worked at a time when our understanding of DNA was changing in big ways
Meet the botanist who made sugarcane sweeter and snuck a squirrel into England
Janaki Ammal lived simply. Her life was anything but.
3 incredible stories from the life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
The “Queen of Carbon” didn’t earn her title by playing by the rules
Neurons die with grace
Neuroscientist Emily Lowry’s ongoing research on how and why nerve cells die has implications for Alzheimer’s, ALS and beyond.
Scientists are concerned and troubled by the Trump administration
Research could wither if the federal funding it depends on becomes scarce or disappears.
We can’t see it or feel it, but we know it’s out there. Probably.
Learn how we know about dark matter, the best attempts so far to explain what it is, and the experiments that are trying to detect it.
Dark Matter makes up a quarter of our universe, but we still have no idea what it is
The discovery of the Higgs boson points us in the right direction, but we’re still feeling our way through the dark.