Something unusual is happening out in the wild in Australia. Some birds are genetically one sex but look and act like the other. Scientists looked at five species: the Australian magpie, laughing ...

Researchers at the Whitehead Institute have found an easier way to create genetic variety in crops. Many food crops suffer from limited genetic variety after centuries of selective farming. This makes ...

Many couples nowadays think more than twice before deciding if they want to have kids. As a society, we're more aware of how ...

Geneticist and entrepreneur Adrian Woolfson argues that genome engineering and AI will let us design organisms beyond nature’s limits ...

Described as a short single-player, third-person adventure, Become casts you as a sperm cell that is competing against millions of others in the game of life. To stand a chance at winning this race ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

For middle-class people, most of these purchases may feel responsible or even earned. But writer Arpit Mehta breaks down eight 'normal' purchases many middle-class households routinely justify that ...

Christy Carlson Romano reveals a positive cancer screening result, prompting further tests to determine the nature and severity of the potential illness.

Have you ever heard of a ‘bad dog’? According to Shantanu Naidu, general manager at Tata Motors, bad dogs do not exist. In fact, when he speaks of Winter — the golden retriever who has kept Shantanu ...

Jackson was ahead of his time in seeing not only problems in agriculture but what he called the problem of agriculture, the millennia of soil erosion and soil degradation caused by plowing and ...

To the local people feeding the growing flock every day, they are ‘perfect’ creatures with beautiful plumage. To others, they are creating a Hitchcockian nightmare – defecating, stealing and spreading ...

Pigeons have historically served as messengers for humans, but a Russian startup claims to take this to a new level—effectively “hacking” pigeon brains to turn them into biological drones. In a recent ...