Kevin Esvelt argues that the tremendous power of CRISPR can only be contained if scientists are open about their research.

Tracing the path from 15th-century royal kitchens to 1992’s The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Cookbook and beyond

Microchip implants are going from tech-geek novelty to genuine health tool—and you might be running out of good reasons to say no.

Infestation. Insects. Ointment. This is not the stuff you might expect from a work of prestige TV that takes extreme wealth as its subject.

There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months.

The pollution that cars emit goes beyond what spews from their tailpipe.

The study of DNA from millennia-old bacteria and viruses is revealing new secrets about the plague and other epidemics.

Size isn’t everything.

Flesh-eating parasites keep popping up in unexpected places.

“Let me, in conclusion, assure the distraught hostess that some of my best friends are writers, and adjure her, for God’s sake, not to bring them and me together at a party at her house.”