What have we learned from science's most infamous doctor-patient relationship?
Reanimation! is a seven-part, animated series on the lasting impact of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'
How can we responsibly explore the unknown?
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What are the consequences of creating an artificial intelligence?
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What does it mean to be human when we can engineer our genetic code?
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What happens when we make the world in our own image?
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Where does consciousness come from?
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Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, an inspiration to scientists
Le Guin was a testament to how fiction reveals truth, empathy, and the beauty of knowledge
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4 incredible fossils found by paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey
Meet the British anthropologist who completely changed our understanding of the hominid ancestral tree
Meet the woman who changed how we treat cancer
Jane Cooke Wright saved millions by making chemotherapy more effective
Meet the physicist who helped discover three fundamental particles
Most scientists spend their careers hoping for a single big discovery. Sau Lan Wu has had three and is still searching for more.
Meet the first black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry
Marie Maynard Daly worked at a time when our understanding of DNA was changing in big ways
Dark Matter makes up a quarter of our universe, but we still have no idea what it is
The discovery of the Higgs boson points us in the right direction, but we’re still feeling our way through the dark.
We can’t see it or feel it, but we know it’s out there. Probably.
Learn how we know about dark matter, the best attempts so far to explain what it is, and the experiments that are trying to detect it.
Scientists are concerned and troubled by the Trump administration
Research could wither if the federal funding it depends on becomes scarce or disappears.
3 incredible stories from the life of nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
The “Queen of Carbon” didn’t earn her title by playing by the rules
Meet the botanist who made sugarcane sweeter and snuck a squirrel into England
Janaki Ammal lived simply. Her life was anything but.
Neurons die with grace
Neuroscientist Emily Lowry’s ongoing research on how and why nerve cells die has implications for Alzheimer’s, ALS and beyond.