Science

The Techno-Humanist Manifesto

Why happiness is not the best indicator of well-being

Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.

Jason Crawford

How Arc Institute is bringing science into the century of biology

Stephen Johnson

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Agriculture

Plant sensors could act as an early warning system for farmers

Using sensors made from carbon nanotubes, researchers discovered signals that help plants respond to stresses like heat, light, or attack.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Biology

Did life evolve more than once? Researchers are closing in on an answer

Current scientific consensus is that life emerged from non-living molecules in a process called abiogenesis. But if life emerged once, why not more times?

Jordi Paps

Genetics

We’re analysing DNA from ancient and modern humans to create a “family tree of everyone”

Genetic genealogy not only helps us understand where we came from, but it could also be used for tracing the origin of genetic mutations.

Anthony Wilder Wohns and Yan Wong

Biology

Discovery finally uncovers how melanin blocks UV

An international team of researchers have isolated and analyzed a component of melanin, which protects us from the sun.

B. David Zarley

Food

A banana that doesn’t go bad so fast approved by the Philippines

Billions of bananas are wasted every year, but that may change soon.

Sachin Rawat

Planet Earth

Supercomputers revealed giant “pillars of heat” funnelling diamonds upwards from deep within Earth

Understanding Earth’s internal history can be used to target mineral reserves – not only diamonds, but also crucial minerals.

Nicolas Flament and Ömer F. Bodur

Biology

A new organelle has been found in cells

Researchers have discovered a new organelle in the guts of fruit flies.

B. David Zarley

CRISPR

CRISPR sausage gets FDA green light for consumption

The FDA has given Washington State University researchers the green light to feed five gene-edited pigs to people.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

The paper plane world record has been shattered

Boeing engineers who grew up folding paper planes at family days have broken the distance flight record.

B. David Zarley

A drone in the air with a missile-shaped capsule hanging from its underside

Drones

Watch a startup drop science experiments from 2,000 feet up

To help scientists conduct microgravity experiments, UK startup Gravitilab has developed a drone that drops them from high above the Earth.

Kristin Houser

Climate Crisis

Killing this toxic invasive species could help fix the climate

A robot from Seaweed Generation will drag chunks of sargassum 200 meters deep until they burst and die.

Mike Wehner

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