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When the Composer Is a Geneticist

Jenny Graves tired of singing about Adam and Eve. So she wrote a creation oratorio based on science.

July 26, 2024

 A Snaky Use for CRISPR

Indiana Jones would love to hear about this new application for the gene-editing technology.

July 25, 2024

The Unpredictability of Life

Why academic outcomes resist machine learning.

July 24, 2024

The Elegant Math of Machine Learning

Anil Ananthaswamy’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Why Machines Learn.

July 23, 2024

There Will Be Blood

Confronting the ethical and ecological dilemma over culling animals for conservation.

July 22, 2024

Underwater Harmony and Chaos

These birds are diving fools.

July 22, 2024

The Lion Who Would Save the World

An anthropologist shows how bonding with another species could help humans come together.

July 18, 2024

The Odds That Aliens Exist Just Got Worse

How geology resolves the Fermi paradox.

July 17, 2024

Ray Kurzweil Still Lives in Utopia

The futurist doubles down on the Singularity in his latest book.

July 17, 2024

I Heard the Wild Donkey Bray

On the trail of a new understanding of invasive species.

July 16, 2024

The New Science of Animal Minds

The author on writing his new book Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World.

July 16, 2024

What Happened to Ancient Megafauna?

Recent studies show it wasn’t the climate that did them in.

July 15, 2024