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Reactor-grown nuggets, human-edited genetic code, and new mRNA technologies could change our relationship to life itself. ..
Reactor-grown nuggets, human-edited genetic code, and new mRNA technologies could change our relationship to life itself. ..
The idea of a synthetic experience uploaded to the mind has been a sci-fi fantasy forever. New brain-computer interfaces are making it nonfiction—very ..
Set your phasers on stun, because we are going to beam you up on the physics of teleportation. ..
For her new book, Devi Lockwood traveled around the world gathering stories of how people are being directly affected by a warming planet. ..
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains the twisty history of combinatorial optimization. ..
A wild thought experiment by Jaron Lanier and physicist Stephon Alexander concerning gravitons, virtual reality, and Incan khipu. ..
A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse. ..
Those who are incarcerated are suing for their right to gender confirmation surgery—if deemed necessary. Meet the psychiatrist who almost always says ..
A new federal facility in Kansas will house the deadliest agricultural pathogens in the world—and researchers working tirelessly to contain them. ..
The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine might ..