Genetics
The Unbearable Weirdness of CRISPR
How the genome of a salt-loving microbe led to a world-changing technology.
Does Having Kids Make Mothers Age Faster?
Evidence is stacking up on both sides of an age-old debate.
Ingenious: Dalton Conley
The Princeton sociologist explains why race is not a scientific category.
What Both the Left and Right Get Wrong About Race
Setting the scientific record straight on race, IQ, and success.
Why Evolution Is Ageist
Genetic mutation changes from adaptive to dangerous after reproductive age.
Spark of Science: Pardis Sabeti
The computational geneticist explains why she chose research over being a doctor.
Why Sex Is Mostly Binary but Gender Is a Spectrum
A short genetic history of one of the most profound dimensions of human identity.
Ingenious: Siddhartha Mukherjee
The oncologist, researcher, and writer on genetics, medicine, and identity.
From a Pink Squiggle to the Human Genome Project
This Yellowstone bacterium sparked PCR, one of the great advances in genetics.