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Scientists have devised a method to sequence more microbes, more quickly, which could lead to a better understanding of the origin of complex life.

A new strategy prevents parasites from adapting to drugs by intensifying the competition between them.

Its features are so strange that scientists originally thought it might be a fake.

What lurks in the Arctic’s thawing permafrost?

The video is grainy, blobular, and dark, but for a molecule-scale movie, it is remarkably clear. You can see CRISPR, in real time, cleaving a strand of DNA in two.

There’s good news and bad news.

Leonardo da vinci liked to think that he was as good at engineering as he was at painting, and though this was not actually the case (nobody was as good at engineering as he was at painting), the basis for his creativity was an enthusiasm for interweaving diverse disciplines. With a passion both playful and…

Scientists may soon be able to monitor whole ecosystems in real time.

Buried deep under an island in the Baltic, the world’s first permanent nuclear-waste repository is nearing completion. If all goes according to plan, future generations may not know it’s there.