In The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, journalist Charles Fishman reintroduces the reader to life’s most precious resource—water.

The United Nations has declared 2011 the International Year of Chemistry. While the world celebrates a century of scientific progress, we have to ask how our dreams of a synthetic utopia might end.

Little Manya Sklodowski (Marie Curie) became the first woman to earn the Nobel Prize in Physics, and the first person ever to earn a second Prize.

April 26 marks the 25^th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in history—a good time to reevaluate our responsibility regarding energy sources.

The worry that we will overstep our ability to control the use of our material knowledge has been a recurring literary theme.

Is preserving the species, or even the planet, the ultimate in human meaning? Vision looks at three recent books that outline potential end-time disasters.

We explore several aspects of stem-cell research which have been discussed in recent publications and at two recent conferences held in San Francisco.

Vision asks Clive Svendsen of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles about the current direction in stem-cell research.