SCIENCE

The Trouble With CRISPR

Why the revolutionary gene editing technology may not be a miracle

The Ethics of a Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified many aspects of our society and opened them up to scrutiny. It has exposed the good, such as our ability to band together in the face of a common foe; our desire to volunteer our time to help those in need; and our willingness to ...

Losing faith

The COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the globe this year is the defining event of a generation. To say that the disease has taken a toll would be a ludicrous understatement; with medical treatment under-available, entire economies in lockdown, and a mental health crisis raging quietly beneath it all, the ...

There’s more to gain from face time than FaceTime

And why we should get off our damn phones already

Climate Count-Up: #47 Bioplastics

Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change

From individuals to communities

Towards an ecological understanding of health

Love potion #9: a (neurochemical) recipe

The secret ingredient required to make a love potion isn’t eye of newt or pixie dust

Coronavirus: fact versus fiction

The outbreak of a new coronavirus has sent panic rippling across the world at speeds far faster than the actual virus travels. If this is somehow the first exposé you’ve encountered, “coronavirus” is the somewhat-misleading name now commonly used to refer to the 2019 novel coronavirus (or 2019-nCoV, for short), ...

Sexual compatibility made easy

Finding a partner as a fungus with 28,000 different sexes

Let’s talk about (genetic) sex

“In Urdu, the only language she knew, all things, not just living things but all things—carpets, clothes, books, pens, musical instruments—had a gender. Everything was masculine or feminine, man or woman. Everything except her baby. Yes of course she knew there was a word for those like him—Hijra. Two words ...