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Pioneering synthetic biologist Pamela Silver drops some wisdom.

Within 10 years, archival data may be routinely stored in base pairs rather than bytes.

DARPA is developing an implantable device with bioengineered cells for treating everything from traveler’s diarrhea to jet lag.

While AI may not end the world the way sci-fi writers imagine, it may very well pull your strings in the near future.

A first-person account of a simple clinical blood treatment that may extend healthy life.

From Dracula ants to carnivorous toilets, scientists share their favorite evolutionary adaptations.

Will fears of climate change cause Great Britain to loosen its restrictions on genetically edited crops?

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.

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.

Blasting grapevines into space could help the wine industry survive climate change.

Hunger, profits, and Atoms For Peace have driven attempts to alter crops with radiation, chemicals, and genetic manipulation.

Cells we were taught to ignore have been caught on tape doing the unthinkable.