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Scientists Can Now Repaint Butterfly Wings
Thanks to CRISPR, scientists are studying animal evolution in ways that were previously thought to be impossible. By Ed Yong.
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Zombies Are Real, and Closer Than You Think
Etomologist Don Steinkraus takes a look at beetles whose limbs keep moving, despite appearing to be quite dead. What's going on here.
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Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack DNA
Experts debate what amateur scientists could accomplish with the powerful DNA editing tool—and whether its ready availability is cause for concern. By Annie Sneed.
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Four DNA bases good, six better
Researchers announce a fully viable bacteria created using expanded DNA repertoire. Steve Fleischfresser reports.
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Camp DASH: How a Purdue Child Nutrition Study Went Very, Very Wrong
Camp DASH was supposed to be a gold-standard study of diet-mitigated hypertension in adolescents. Instead, it became a venue for chaos. What happened? By Amy Gastelum.
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Genetically Engineering Yourself Sounds Like A Horrible Idea, But This Guy Is Doing It Anyway
“’The interesting thing is, if it works, will it last?’ Zayner told me, a GoPro strapped to his head and a Hell or High Watermelon beer on the table as he filled a pipette with the DNA mixture to spread over his skin…” By Kristen V. Brown.
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Ten top science minds tell what strange new body part they’d like to have
Evolution is hard to control — but what if you had a magic wand? By David Freeman.
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The dread and the awe
Crispr’s inventor assesses her creation. By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Saskia Popescu.
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It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible. By David P. Barash.
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Victor Frankenstein Is the Real Monster
Mary Shelley's misunderstood masterpiece turns 200. By Ronald Bailey.
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'Memory transplant' achieved in snails
Memories are transferred from one snail to another in a laboratory. By Shivani Dave.
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The Genetics, and Ethics, of Making Humans Fit for Mars
We could make people less stinky, more resistant to radiation, even less dependent on food and oxygen. But would the new creature be human? By Jason Pontin.
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In Search of a Bigger Boom
What drove Edward Teller to push for a 10,000 megaton hydrogen bomb? By Alex Wellerstein. (Sept. 12, 2012)
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Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare
A pear seedling selection named Bradford was cloned by the gazillion to become the ubiquitous street tree of America’s postwar suburban expansion. Then it turned invasive. By Adrian Higgins.
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Operation Delirium
Decades after a risky Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets. By Raffi Khatchadourian.
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There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within
Monsters once inhabited the mysterious fringes of the known world. In our human-dominated present, can they still be found? By Natalie Lawrence.
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This May Be the Most Horrifying Surgery Story You’ve Ever Heard
How a surgeon who has been dubbed “Dr. Death” got away with harming patients for a criminally long time. By Laura Beil.
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