How warming disrupts soil microbial communities and shifts carbon dynamics, with implications for agriculture.

Iron-rich rust chimneys concentrate RNA and what this means for the origin-of-life debate.

How electroactive bacteria generate electricity while treating wastewater and what it could mean for sustainable infrastructure.

Why crossing the warming threshold means we must now actively pull CO₂ from the air and who is working on it.

How carbon isotopes act as chemical fingerprints that help scientists confirm ancient fossils and reconstruct what early organisms ate.

How subtle differences in atomic mass help scientists read past climates and design better tools for the future.

How microorganisms absorb and concentrate metals, and what this means for the future of mining and materials.

How warming oceans are pushing coral reefs toward collapse and the science and startups working to bring them back.

How microbial cooperation drives processes in agriculture, health, and industry and how companies are putting it to work.

On the CLAW hypothesis and endosymbiotic theory and what they reveal about how science actually decides who was right.

On the culture of overselling in grant proposals and startup pitches and what it costs to say something true instead.

Published in Science magazine’s Careers / Working Life section.