July - August 2017 issue!

26 Agriculture's new hackers

Welcome to the era of non-browning mushrooms, tomatoes
and rice that blooms on demand.

31 Food genius

Irwin Adam Eydelant titillates the senses to provoke thought about food. Portrait of a colorful engineer.

34 The molecule that will save mangoes

In India, growers lose a third of their mango crop every year. The use of a natural compound could change all that.

39 Is salt irreplaceable?

Unlike sugar, salt still has no substitute
worthy of the name.

42 Solar power peaks in Quebec

Will the global solar boom reach our province?

48 Revolutionizing bicycles through science

The work of a small group of researchers on the ability of bicycles to hold
to the vertical by itself revive scientific interest in it.

6 Cabinet of curiosities

Big towers, big challenges

8 The Great Barrier Reef is dying off

Scientists sound the alarm.

10 Climate manipulators

Harvard engineers want to artificially block the Sun's rays in order to
lower the temperature.

12 Cassini: the final plunge

The Cassini mission will have provided invaluable data on Saturn right up to the end.

16 Discriminatory math

In theory, algorithms are neutral. In practice, they can change lives.