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Environment
How Plants' Built-In Tools Could Help Them Adapt to Climate Change
New research shows plants could have the tools to adapt and survive climate changes. But how will those changes affect us?
Culture
How Feather Extensions Are Changing the Way Chickens Live (and Die)
Whether it’s Steven Tyler, Miley Cyrus, or sorority girls all across the country, demand for long "saddle feathers" is way, way up.
Culture
Can Biology Class Fight Racism? Doubtful.
Logically, the world would be less racist if we all knew we were 99.9 percent genetically similar. Of course, that's assuming racism is logical.
Lifestyle
Researchers Unveil the Woodland Strawberry Genome. Are Designer Fruits Next?
Researchers recently unveiled the genome of the woodland strawberry. That could transform the apples, apricots, and almonds of the future.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: The Atlas of Genetically Modified Crops
Where in the world are genetically modified crops grown?
Lifestyle
Taste of Tech: Biohacking the Future
How to make your own genetically modified seed—and what might happen if you do.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: The Grand Finale
Recipes for transgenic foods, the ethics of cyborg Jainism, lunar agriculture, and Harry Potter at the farmers' market: food for future thinkers.
Culture
Science: You and Your Friends Have Similar Genes
A new study suggests that friendships may start at a genetic level—though some scientists say it's too soon to tell.
Business
Growing Up Poor Zaps Your Mental Abilities by the Time You're Two
A new study finds family income plays a role in a child's cognitive development, and in case you didn't know, rich people don't have better genes.
Lifestyle
Hold the Sugar: An Interview with Food Scientist Beverly Tepper on Genetics, Taste, and Bitter-Blockers
The director of Rutgers University's Sensory Evaluation Lab on bitter blockers, nanotechnology, and where food science has gone wrong in the past.
Education
Teachers Impact How Fast a Child Learns to Read
A new study in the journal Science finds that the teacher quality has a big impact on how fast children in first and second grades learn to read....
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The Science of Success
Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the...
