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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.
A Snaky Use for CRISPR
Indiana Jones would love to hear about this new application for the gene-editing technology.
The Elegant Math of Machine Learning
Anil Ananthaswamy’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Why Machines Learn.
There Will Be Blood
Confronting the ethical and ecological dilemma over culling animals for conservation.
The Lion Who Would Save the World
An anthropologist shows how bonding with another species could help humans come together.
Ray Kurzweil Still Lives in Utopia
The futurist doubles down on the Singularity in his latest book.
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.
What Happened to Ancient Megafauna?
Recent studies show it wasn’t the climate that did them in.











