Culture

New research reveals how people feel about being judged by algorithms—and why employees should have first dibs on their data.

As the line between nature and technology blurs, we need new ways to describe how the body works.

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

Forty years after a 1981 report hinted at the coming HIV/AIDS pandemic, we look at how the response to global public health threats has changed.

The fast transmission of bad information is dangerous. A new approach employs “infodemiologists” to fight outbreaks.

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.