Scientists have created the precision-guided sterile insect technique, a new CRISPR-based technology to control Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species responsible for spreading wide-ranging diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika.

I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday.Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers…

Can you imagine a mind without language? More specifically, can you imagine your mind without language? Can you think, plan, or relate…

Scientists in China have created a new type of glass that is harder than a diamond. Diamond is one of the hardest known materials and is often used to cut harder materials. Typically diamond can cu…

Abstract mathematics seems meaningless in a reality that’s strange enough as it is. As society grapples with the more immediate concerns of everyday life, the endless coordinates of geometric space appear pointless—or, so we might think. Algebraic geometer Jordan Ellenberg applies the seemingly esoteric fields of geometry and topology to everyday i …

In 2018, a German newspaper asked me if I would be interested in having a conversation with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who had…

Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It…

Dry air consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen molecules, which weigh more than water molecules.