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Love Island

The perks of offworlding.

  • Fiction

By Elvia Wilk

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  • Futures

By Claire L. Evans

Artificial Animals

Robots aren’t people. If anything, they’re animals.

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  • Essay

By Davian Ho

The Last Kingdom

Why protists could turn out to be synthetic biology’s dark horse.

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  • Dialogue

By Max G. Levy

When Robots Multiply

These scientists created living robots out of frog cells. Now these “Xenobots” are reproducing.

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equity

  • The Equity Issue

By Beronda L. Montgomery

Towards Polyculture

What the plant kingdom can teach us about creating a more equitable science world.

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  • The Equity Issue

The Black Box Breakers

By Kavin Senapathy

  • The Equity Issue

A Feeling for the Organism

By Claire L. Evans

Topics

Biodesign
Creatures
Ecosystems
Ethics
Food
Frontiers
GMOs
Health
Pandemic
  • Review

By Dean Kissick

The Highbrow Neanderthal

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  • Review

By Molly Young

Instagram Fruit

The secret behind Del Monte’s Pink Pineapple™

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  • Histories

By Victoria Campbell

Intelligent Designs

The Work of Art in the Age of Synthetic Reproduction

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  • The Beauty Issue

By Arabelle Sicardi

The Ugly Truth

What happens when the government enforces beauty standards?

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beauty

  • The Beauty Issue

By Dean Kissick

Wings of Desire

How birds became beautiful and art got weird.

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  • The Beauty Issue

First Face

By Hannah Black

  • The Beauty Issue

The Age of Agelessness

By Frank Swain

dialogue

  • Dialogue

By Christina Agapakis

Is DNA Hardware or Software?

A conversation with Michael Levin about Xenobots, the world’s first living robots.

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  • Dialogue

Dangerous Until Proven Safe

By C. Kaye Rawlings

  • The Nature Issue

Moving the Needle

By Christina Agapakis

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What’s it like to grow up during a plague?
Karmella Haynes is on a mission to revolutionize cancer treatment.
A conversation with Jeantine Lunshof about the ethical implications of Xenobots.
How living medicines bridge the gap between pharmacology and nature.
Can biotech interventions prevent the mass extinction of coral reefs?
Zbiotics wants to change your drinking habits and your attitude toward GMOs.
  • Reportage

By Kaitlin Sullivan

Anatomy of an Underground Wildfire

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  • Personal Essay

By Sudeep Agarwala

The Food of Exiles

Technologies of memory and loss in a displaced world.

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  • Reportage

By Frank Swain

The world’s most popular fruit is facing extinction. Gene editing could save it.

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  • Futures

By Britt Wray

Meet Greta, the first mammoth-elephant hybrid.

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nature

  • The Nature Issue

By Andy Gonzalez

After the Metabiome

What if everything around you was alive?

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  • The Nature Issue

The Nature of Nature

By Rowan Jacobsen

  • The Nature Issue

Genetic Sputniks

By Luis Campos

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