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DEBUNKER
Do Human Pheromones Exist?
Pheromones are often used to explain why you’re attracted to someone unexpected, or how you tolerate your partner’s very particular post-run funk, but abhor anyone…
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Natasha Frost
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Sniffing Out Diseases
A telltale COVID-19 symptom underscores the scientific significance of smell—for both patients and practitioners.
By
Georgia Frances King
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Mind Your Nose
How smell training can change your brain in six weeks—and why it matters.
By
Ann-Sophie Barwich
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After the Madness—Pandemic Silver Linings in Bioscience
Will the frenzied rush to understand and treat SARS-CoV-2 bring longer lasting benefit to the world of scientific research and medicine?
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David Ewing Duncan
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EXCERPT
A New Kind of Natural
An artist imagines life forms that will arise from the convergence of technology and biology.
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Becky Lyon
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The Perfect Orgasm
What would a sex toy that anticipates your every whim be like?
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Lux Alptraum
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There Might Be a Better Time to Pop That Pill
Syncing cures with circadian rhythms is an idea whose moment has finally come.
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Elizabeth Preston
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REVIEW
6 Books, Movies, and Shows to Bend Your Neocortex This Winter
Nanobots that find you a soul mate, a Frankenstein remix, and other stories that turn the neobiological revolution inside out.
By
Devon Maloney
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Plastic-Eating Microbes to the Rescue?
Nature breaks everything down—eventually. It’s time to accelerate the process.
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Grace Rubenstein
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The Dawn of Cheap and Easy DNA Writing
These startups are developing new ways to reprogram biology by producing custom genes from scratch.
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Lauren Gravitz
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Q&A
How to Manipulate Memories
Steve Ramirez wants to zap bad memories and upgrade good ones.
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Brian Bergstein
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Q&A
How to Turn Science Fiction into Science Fact
George Church and Ramez Naam on the limitations of evolution, the power of matchmaking, and why we should send single-cell computers into deep space.
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Ramez Naam
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FICTION
Vanilla Memories
Gene editing scrambles a family’s connections in this original sci-fi story for proto.life.
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Hannu Rajaniemi
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The Future of Genetic Engineering
A bioengineer, a biopunk, and a biotech reporter square off onstage about our neobiological future.
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Jane Metcalfe
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PROFILE
Paging Doctor Orgasm
Nicole Prause left academia to study sexuality without institutional limits. Now she’s challenging orthodox views of climax and pornography.
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Mallory Pickett
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