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Your bubble tea could hold the key to helping millions of farmers
Read now →Cassava, an African staple food crop, could be poised to become a major source of industrial starch thanks to CRISPR
Massive Science Report № 3
We worked with scientists in the field to explain how we’re growing meats in labs—and when you can eat them. It's your introduction to the next agricultural revolution.
Massive Science Report № 1
We've gathered a team of geneticists, biologists, and environmental scientists to bring you the most up-to-date report on the science, history, and safety of genetically-modified organisms.
Mark Lynas on the complexity of disagreeing on GMOs
Read now →'I try to take people at face value in terms of what their objections are, and to not ascribe them with ill-intent'
Scientists are recruiting live bacteria to fight deadly infections
Read now →A study in rural India is raising hopes for a future without antibiotics
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How 'Frankenstein' unfairly sways the GMO debate
Read now →The novel ushered in a concept that actively harms the Global South two centuries later
The world's appetite for meat is growing. How will we satisfy it?
Read now →In the near future, "meat" could mean a lot more than it does now
Simulating evolution helped scientists design a better virus
Read now →It sounds like an arcane superpower. It boils down to random mutation and selection
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This biologist believes we should embrace human gene editing
Read now →It could free millions from preventable, predetermined suffering
We need genetic engineering to stave off climate change-induced global hunger
Read now →Despite what many say, organic farming will not save us from the worst impacts of climate change
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Why I'm quitting GMO research
Read now →Constantly confronting people who think my research will harm them is profoundly distressing
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Evolution is elegant but not when it's in David Sloan Wilson's hands
Read now →His new book "This View of Life" tries to wedge too much into one biological point of view
The science Nobel Prizes are sexist, racist, and misleading. Let's rethink them
Read now →We should be rewarding discoveries, not individuals
Plants are not conscious, whether you can 'sedate' them or not
Read now →A New York Times story is a case study in what can go wrong in translating science
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The prolific life of Wang Zhenyi, autodidact, astronomer, and poet
Read now →Progressive in science and art, she disregarded sexist norms of Qing-dynasty China
Lab-grown meat could bring about the next agricultural revolution
Read now →Cultured meat would require less land, less water and potentially produce less greenhouse gases
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The Mother's Curse: how a French king’s legacy revealed a loophole in evolution
Read now →New research with roots in colonial Canada suggests new wrinkles in ideas of evolution
The art of publicly changing your mind on GMOs
Read now →'Seeds of Science' makes a persuasive case for GM technology by a man who used to oppose it
What we know, and still don't know, about the CRISPR-modified twins
Read now →Genomicist Devang Mehta cuts through the hype to lay out the facts
MIT scientists invent an ion-drive powered plane with no moving parts
Read now →This "first flight" flew the same distance as the Wright Brother's original plane
Scientists just cut the tolerable intake of PFAs by 99.9%
Read now →PFAs are everywhere. In cosmetics, wrapping your greasy take-out burgers, and eventually, 98% of humans' bloodstreams. The recommended tolerable intake for PFAs was just cut by 99.9%.
Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
Read now →He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today?
James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism
Read now →“How does it feel to be a black scientist who owes much to James Watson in general, and in my case, is linked to his specific pedigree?”