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CRISPR Gene-Editing Pioneers Win Kavli Prize for Nanoscience

The inventors of a “Swiss army knife” for genome editing received prestigious honors, as did pioneering scientists in astrophysics and neuroscience.

June 4, 2018

How to Talk About Vaccines on Television

What one scientist has learned from years of media appearances.

May 29, 2018

Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?

John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud.

May 29, 2018

Are Suicide Bombings Really Driven by Ideology?

The surprising anthropology of group identity.

May 22, 2018

Why New Antibiotics Are So Hard to Find

A dispatch from the front lines of the war against antibiotic resistance.

May 22, 2018

The Popular Creation Story of Astronomy Is Wrong

The old tale about science versus the church is wide of the mark.

How NASA’s Mission to Pluto Was Nearly Lost

The inside story of the New Horizons probe.