Features

Step one: breathe…

Hardware visionary Mary Lou Jepsen’s next act is to read your mind—no implants required.

Ultra Testing shows that autism in the workplace can be a feature, not a bug.

Writers, artists, experimenters of all kinds: we’re a platform for your great ideas!

Seeing a thousand of my potential progeny gave me a glimpse of new things that future parents will stress over.

Technology will dramatically increase the choices that parents can make about their offspring. But having too many options can be a bad thing.

Machines programmed to explore could lead to smarter AI — and show us how to unlock capacities lying dormant in our own brains.

Eventually, no one will die while waiting for a transplant. But that day is further off than you might think.

Supplements and the people who take them.

Pot is being packaged like fine wines and sold with bold claims about physical and psychological benefits. Does science back up the marketing pitch?

Anorexia may originate in your gut and your DNA, not in fashion magazines.

Bryan Johnson is convinced that human intelligence needs an upgrade. So he’s putting up $100 million to make it happen.

Sham treatments that work even when you know they’re fakes.

Yuval Noah Harari’s book is right that humans have developed God-like powers, but it’s wrong about the reasons — and it underestimates what will come.

Facing troubling news in his DNA, William Trubridge displays a competitive advantage not found in his genome: equanimity