… and other evolutionary questions for an anthropologist who studies ancient teeth.
How do long, white filaments grow out of barren rock?
… and that’s a big problem for medical marijuana research.
The project seized on one of the most romantic fantasies of synthetic biology.
The mess made me appreciate good toothpaste-tube design.
There's a lot of money to be made in gene-editing technology.
The unusual success of KSL Classifieds
“We’ve had patients tell us they take 400 to 500 tablets day … They put it in a blender and make a smoothie and drink it over one or two hours.”
He’s the same scientist who inspired Jurassic Park.
Bioethicists studying a small program in Dallas were surprised by what they found.
An interview with the CDC’s scientific photographer
Yucca Mountain is back, and Nevadans are not happy.
From the EPA, to the NIH, and NASA, research is not a priority in the administration’s fiscal blueprint.
In the 1920s, young women worked in an Ottawa, Illinois, factory painting radioactive glow-in-the-dark numbers onto watches. They were told…
A mysterious hunting accident provides a new test for wildlife forensics.
GINA only applies to health insurance and employment, but a new Republican bill would weaken even those protections.
A remote part of the Indian Ocean has become, by chance, one of the best-mapped parts of the underwater world.
Ninety-two percent of citizen petitions filed against generics come from brand-name drug companies.
You've probably heard about your gut bacteria—now get to know your gut archaea.
When I first contacted Nikolai Formozov about his paper on a 30,000-year-old squirrel originally found by Gulag prisoners, which…