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Researchers are finding new links between specific genes and intelligence. Can we use this knowledge to make people smarter?

Back by popular demand: more great reading recommendations from people shaping the future of our species.

Trying to stay young isn’t just futile: it’s also bad for you. Here’s how to think about aging in the era of ultra longevity.

… where we ask the experts for reading recommendations.

Cory Doctorow’s novel “Walkaway” envisions a future in which the jobless masses co-opt automation technologies to ensure their freedom.

Gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s new book reveals her dreams and nightmares about what she has unleashed.

They’re avoiding many of the substances that got earlier generations high. But are they better off?

They’ve been ahead of the curve on personal health tracking and citizen science. What will their doctors and the rest of us learn from their data addiction?

An industrial designer takes data visualization to a sculptural dimension.

The MinION cracks open biotech to the masses the way the PC democratized computing. What will we do with this newfound power?

Berkeley researchers may have the perfect authentication device — assuming you’re okay with a computer analyzing your thoughts.

Too hot for UCLA: Nicole Prause wants you to have more orgasms … so she can study them.

Lynn Hershman Leeson has spent 40 years grappling with cyborgs, genetically modified organisms, and AI.

And with those closing words, our tears gradually dried, and the rabbi led the pallbearers and Janet Sollod’s casket out of the synagogue, accompanied by…

Juan Enriquez bets on the end of undruggable targets, the power of programmable cells, and a machine that cooks up biological material.