The malaria map: How a 74,000-year war with a tiny parasite forced humanity to rearrange the world

For over 70,000 years, the malaria parasite has profoundly shaped human migration and settlement patterns, forcing ancestors ...
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Nearly 800 species documented across five years and 160 days at sea in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — most were unknown

Over five years and 160 days at sea, researchers pulled 4,350 animals from the deep Pacific seafloor and sorted them into 788 ...

Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life—with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.