Despite what many say, organic farming will not save us from the worst impacts of climate change

His new book "This View of Life" tries to wedge too much into one biological point of view

Cultured meat would require less land, less water and potentially produce less greenhouse gases

In the near future, "meat" could mean a lot more than it does now

Cassava, an African staple food crop, could be poised to become a major source of industrial starch thanks to CRISPR

Here's everything that science tells us

The novel ushered in a concept that actively harms the Global South two centuries later

'I try to take people at face value in terms of what their objections are, and to not ascribe them with ill-intent'

'Seeds of Science' makes a persuasive case for GM technology by a man who used to oppose it

Constantly confronting people who think my research will harm them is profoundly distressing

A New York Times story is a case study in what can go wrong in translating science

It sounds like an arcane superpower. It boils down to random mutation and selection

A study in rural India is raising hopes for a future without antibiotics

Progressive in science and art, she disregarded sexist norms of Qing-dynasty China

New research with roots in colonial Canada suggests new wrinkles in ideas of evolution

We should be rewarding discoveries, not individuals

It could free millions from preventable, predetermined suffering

Yes, even human ones