Art

The Synthetic Biology Community Builder

An interview with MIT biologist David Sun Kong—on science, activism, and how biotechnology can empower ordinary people.

By Paolo Pontoniere

6 Things to Think About When Designing Your Child

Designing your child is designing the future. Do it wisely.

By Danny Hillis

The Antidote to Snapchat Dysmorphia? Getting Weird.

AR-enhanced face filters are here to stay, and Ines Alpha is working to free them from tired beauty standards.

By Adriana M. Padilla-Roger

Biophilic Homes Prove Nature is the Best Medicine

Living design elements create a serene, multisensory, healing experience.

By Alex Pearlman

30 Great Gifts for Biologically Inspired People

Featuring cactus shoes, custom probiotics, never-ending glow sticks, and more.

By Jane Metcalfe

Unhinged, Bonkers, and Delicious

These artists are prototyping alternative culinary futures to inspire food production that is more just, biodiverse, and beautiful.

By Cathrine Kramer , Emma Conley and Zack Denfeld

A New Kind of Natural

An artist imagines life forms that will arise from the convergence of technology and biology.

By Becky Lyon

This Artist Shows Why Science is Too Important to Be Left to Scientists

Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.

By Gemma Milne

A Composer and a Neuroscientist Walk into a Bar …

That’s no joke! If it were, there’d have been a third person in the bar. There’s always a third person to bear the brunt of…

By Michael Hawley

This Artist Saw the Neobiological Future Before Any of Us

Lynn Hershman Leeson has spent 40 years grappling with cyborgs, genetically modified organisms, and AI.

By Dorothy Santos