I’m Jesse Nichols, and I cover science and solutions at Grist. I spent the last six month working on a brand new science series that’s dropping next week:

It’s called Proof of Concept, and it’s a series about the messy process of how scientific progress actually happens. The accidental discoveries, the great ideas that just sit there until the right person comes along at the right time, -- and just all the clever and scrappy and sometimes lucky work that moves science forward. I spent the last six months researching and traveling and talking to people about stories big and small — from the tiniest microbes floating in the air to a renewable energy project on one of the largest volcanoes in the American West.

We’ll be launching our first episode tomorrow. See you then!