Managing Editor
Marcus Ito
Marcus oversees daily editorial operations and covers physics, materials science, and the engineering of discovery. He spent five years as a research physicist before turning to journalism.
Latest by Marcus
4 total
Physics
Inside the lab chasing room-temperature superconductors
After a year of retractions, one team thinks it finally has the real thing.
Jun 20, 2026 · 7 min
Architecture
The architects of silence — why Brutalism endures
Concrete and controversy, half a century on. The buildings everyone hated are now the ones people queue to photograph.
Jun 30, 2026 · 7 min
Chemistry
The enzyme that eats plastic — and what comes next
Engineered to break down PET in hours, it could reshape recycling.
May 28, 2026 · 5 min
Medieval
The oral histories of the Great Plague
New analysis of survivor accounts from the Black Death reveals how communities described — and made sense of — an event that killed half of Europe.
May 10, 2026 · 8 min