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Take Me To Your Artist
SETI Institute artists are being inspired by our search for alien life.
From a Pink Squiggle to the Human Genome Project
This Yellowstone bacterium sparked PCR, one of the great advances in genetics.
What Sea Slugs Taught Us About Our Brain
The simple nerve cells of sea creatures helped scientists fathom human memory.
Why Do Jellyfish Glow?
A fluorescent protein helped researchers illuminate human cellular biology.
The Man Who Kicked Off the Biotech Revolution
The $325 billion biotech industry began with the discovery of an enzyme to slice DNA.
Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
The effort to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity means reconciling totally different notions of time.
This Woman Knows the Weather Forecast on Other Planets
Harvard astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has spent her career looking for life among the stars.











