When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully ...

In the life sciences, however, consensus on this issue is rare. Biomedical researchers have yet to reach a majority opinion on whether the human genome project (HGP) should or should not be classified ...

LABLINES: “Linking Arts and Biology through Lines & Narrative for Engaging Science,“ is set to launch at Tufts this semester. The initiative recently received a grant from the Tufts MUSE funding ...

The stars where "Project Hail Mary" takes place, and possibly the planets orbiting them, are very real. We’d expect nothing less from Andy Weir, whose reputation for scientific accuracy helped define ...

In October 1990, biologists officially embarked on one of the century’s most ambitious scientific efforts: reading the 3 billion pairs of genetic subunits — the A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s — that make up ...

Big is beautiful. That was the message of post-second-world-war science. The model was the Manhattan Project to build the first atom bombs. When hostilities ended, it continued with larger and larger ...

Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, ...

A visually ambitious sci-fi adaptation, Project Hail Mary blends real physics with bold speculation - delivering a story that ...

In Project Hail Mary, Dr. Ryland Grace is a humble schoolteacher who one day awakens to find he’s been launched into space as humanity’s last hope for survival. Given the meteoric rise to fame of ...