Genetics
Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story
If you’re looking for your genetic origin story, your DNA will only take you so far.
Vampire Squid Genome Offers Glimpse Into Octopus Evolution
Scientists decoded the elusive creature’s genome for the first time
The Genetics of Putrid-Smelling Flowers
Some plants lure pollinators with the stench of decay using a gene related to one that fights odor in human breath
Reclaiming Samples of Ourselves
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg explores the ethics of human specimen collections in Is a Biobank a Home?
The Last of Their Kind
Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation?
Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer
What snakes, ferrets, and elephants are revealing about cancer resistance
How Neanderthals Kept Our Ancestors Warm
New DNA studies reveal more benefits from our hominin friends
How Life Really Works
Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.
Destroying an Idea Is a Path to Progress
Geneticist Paul Nurse on his Nobel Prize-winning discovery, the importance of failure, and a revelation about his own origins.
