biology

Lessons from fungi on markets and economics

What happens in your brain when you taste food

How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world

How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health

The mysterious origins of life on Earth

How do viruses jump from animals to humans?

How turtle shells evolved... twice

How your emotions change the shape of your heart

Can seaweed help curb global warming?

Why "biofabrication" is the next industrial revolution

The next software revolution: programming biological cells

What is HPV and how can you protect yourself from it?

The secret language of trees

What makes TB the world's most infectious killer?

There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system

How close are we to eradicating HIV?

The lovable (and lethal) sea lion

What it means to be intersex

How we're using dogs to sniff out malaria

How animals and plants are evolving in cities

The surprising reason our muscles get tired

How supercharged plants could slow climate change

Sleep is your superpower

How hip-hop helps us understand science

The wonders of the molecular world, animated

How climate change could make our food less nutritious

How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it

The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods

5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins

Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA?

Grief and love in the animal kingdom

The wild world of carnivorous plants

Why do hospitals have particle accelerators?

How tall can a tree grow?

An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease

How CRISPR lets you edit DNA