Science

There’s gold in your gut—and startups are mining it with microbiome science. The biggest hurdle? Stool doesn’t scale.

Survive massive trauma, lose weight in your sleep, maintain muscle strength in space — all thanks to tricks from sleeping squirrels.

Newly discovered variants let women predict their fertility — and overall health.

Antibacterial compounds are no longer in your hand soap, but they’re in your floors, your walls, and in your body. by Maryn McKenna

This tech could boost fertility and fine-tune hormone levels.

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

Lucy McRae provokes us to vividly imagine alternate futures.

Karl Deisseroth developed astounding technologies that light up the brain and render it transparent. Yet some of his most compelling breakthroughs still come from listening to patients.

He built a powerful system for launching scientific ideas into startups. Can he do it again? by Po Bronson

What if your steak came from the greenhouse instead of the slaughterhouse?

It’s made out of living human cells. Someday they could be yours.

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

An engineer lights up tiny tumors that doctors can’t see.

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

Jamie Metzl makes you smarter about the science of longevity research.