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Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy doesn’t mind bringing dragons to life. What really scares him are humans.

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Researching orgasms gives this reviewer some perspective on the new comedy by Whitney Cummings.

Emotions don’t get in the way of rational thought, says Antonio Damasio. They make it possible.

What “Frankenstein” and the golem tell us about the power and responsibility of science.

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That’s no joke! If it were, there’d have been a third person in the bar. There’s always a third person to bear the brunt of…

A thriller about cloning, gene editing, and bioengineering is the perfect show for our times.

Sophia Roosth puts big questions to the people who are reviving extinct species and building organisms from scratch.

Geoffrey West’s monumental book “Scale” channels math and physics to explore the limits of our biology, our companies, and our civilization.