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Genes play a refreshingly limited role in Carl Zimmer’s new book about heredity.

Michael Pollan explores the neuroscience of psychedelics in this excerpt from his new book.

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.