Culture

Are 21st century rites of passage an essential human need?

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

The race is on to bioengineer carbon-neutral, recyclable, biodegradable, and affordable materials.

These scholars of color combine scientific inquiry and social justice.

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

Nanobots that find you a soul mate, a Frankenstein remix, and other stories that turn the neobiological revolution inside out.

Gene editing scrambles a family's connections in this original sci-fi story for NEO.LIFE.

Sure, your brain is more dynamic than once thought. But harnessing those powers is tricky.

Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.

Student competitors turn jellyfish, microorganisms, and even hair cells into useful things.

“The Rise of Yeast” explains how one fungus altered history.

Elite athletes are now maintaining their level of performance in their 40s and beyond. What can they teach the rest of us?

Genes play a refreshingly limited role in Carl Zimmer’s new book about heredity.

Michael Pollan explores the neuroscience of psychedelics in this excerpt from his new book.

Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy doesn’t mind bringing dragons to life. What really scares him are humans. by David Ewing Duncan