“Technologies of preserving and reviving organisms are already redefining the meaning of life, death, and extinction itself.”
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The Unforeseen Something
When a little girl in Iowa was diagnosed with a rare incurable disease, her parents and their community came together to help her. They wound up making medical history.
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What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
“The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?”
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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
“Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.”
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How Plate Tectonics Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth
“And how scientist Tanya Atwater was at the center of it all.”
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Grate Expectations: The Troubled Quest for Tasty Vegan Cheese
“The plant-based boom failed to deliver. But there may yet be hope.”
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Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks
“Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.”
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Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures
“Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we?”
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I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
“My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms.”
