Design

An emerging trend in interior design reframes the built environment as a way to help people flourish.

Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin plans to outsmart a future artificial intelligence and save humanity.

Next-generation wearable sensors will combine biochemical and physiological metrics.

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

This eclectic mix of researchers is exploring off-Earth living in radical new ways.

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

Mirelle Phillips designs spaces to ease the mind, accelerate healing, and generate awe.

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

As our understanding of the genome evolves, the metaphors we use to describe it should, too.

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

How you track your steps matters way less than who you do it with.

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

Hackers take on everything that makes breastfeeding harder than it should be.

Four big ideas about where food is heading.

Hipster tea sludge is being transformed into a wonder material.