The World’s Biggest Vertical Farm Yet Is Going Up in Pennsylvania

Four and a half years ago I visited a vertical farming research facility in the Netherlands to [...]

Massive National Health Study Looks to Tailor Your Diet to Your Genetic Makeup

Like taxes and death, nutrition is something we can’t escape. Eating should be easy. Yet [...]

Future Evolution: How Will Humans Change in the Next 10,000 Years?

READER QUESTION: If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the [...]

This Is Where Empathy Lives in the Brain, and How It Works

Mind reading comes easily to most of us. For all our divisions, humans are uncannily [...]

First-Ever Artificial Neuron Could Let Us Repair Brain Injuries with Silicon

The merging of man and machine is a staple of sci-fi and at the heart [...]

Moderna Will Develop mRNA Vaccines for 15 of the World’s Worst Diseases

To much of the world, it seemed like the Covid-19 vaccines were whipped up in [...]

Estonia Is a ‘Digital Republic’—What That Means and Why It May Be Everyone’s Future

People around the globe have been watching the buildup to the US election with disbelief. [...]

The UK May Build a £16 Billion Solar Power Station in Space. Here’s How It Would Work

The UK government is reportedly considering a £16 billion proposal to build a solar power station in [...]

These 2021 Biotech Breakthroughs Will Shape the Future of Health and Medicine

It’s that time of year again! With 2021 behind us, we’re going down memory lane [...]

New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day

Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA. The whole enterprise sounds [...]