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Genetics

We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance

Genetic engineering will bring us new Bolts and Shaqs.

August 3, 2016

The Immortality Hype

Despite the hyperbole, private funding is changing the science of aging for the better.

May 20, 2016

Does Stress Speed Up Evolution?

Getting control of the molecular mechanisms that drive rapid mutations.

March 24, 2016

Sex Is a Coping Mechanism

Did sexual reproduction evolve to keep up with mitochondrial mutation?

March 17, 2016

The Secret, Stressful Stories of Fossils

A new field called paleoepigenetics is probing how evolution responds to sudden stress.

November 23, 2015

How Your Embryo Knew What To Do

The forgotten story of the woman who discovered how animals get their shape.

November 20, 2015

Science Is Proving That Tragic Curses Are Real

Epigenetics and behaviorism suggest the ancient Greeks were right.

November 12, 2015