With a zap of electricity, scientists write a message into bacterial DNA for the first time
DNA is compact and information-dense, making it the perfect material for data storage
Meet Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who let doctors see into your blood
Her radioimmunoassay technique enabled scientists to measure hundreds of trace biological substances for the first time
Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered the magic numbers at the center of atoms
She didn't have a paid professorship until three years before her Nobel prize
Who decides when life begins? How do we define a disease? What kind of gene edits should be allowed?
Who has the answers to the questions posed by genetic modification?
The Next Human: Brain and Body as Connected Devices
Is there a difference if the tool is in our hand or if it is an implant in our brain?
More than 10 percent of healthy people hallucinate. You can likely thank dopamine
The brain chemical associated with reward also seems to distort our perceptions
Meet Mamie Phipps Clark, the social psychologist who helped outlaw segregated schools
She became the first black woman to earn a PhD in psychology from Columbia University
Four facts about Marie Tharp, the woman whose art mapped the bottom of the sea
She discovered the Earth's 'backbone' even though men wouldn't let her on a ship for 17 years
What the Ice Age tells us about how plants will manage in a hotter world
New research seems to resolve a puzzle of why plants struggled in the past
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.