Life 2.0: inside the synthetic biology revolution
Synthetic biologists are building organisms that can satisfy our material needs in a cleaner, greener way. James Mitchell Crow explains.
TESS leaves our planet to hunt for many others
NASA’s new exoplanet mission is now underway, with a wealth of discovery expected. Lauren Fuge reports.
Accelerating coral evolution
In this issue: Accelerating coral evolution – Hacking human performance – Resurrecting the thylacine – Gallery: fractals in nature – The entangled web: staging the second quantum revolution – Synthetic life
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Explainer: What’s the difference between mass and weight?
Though mass and weight are related, they’re actually quite different things. Jake Port explains.
How geometry resolved a lengthy border dispute
The length of a boundary depends on the scale at which it is measured. Paul Davies explains how.
Meet the scientist who searches for one-in-three-billion mistakes
Kathryn North wants to make genomic medicine a household phrase. She shares her passion with Paul Biegler.
Optimism in chickens isn’t just black and white. It’s grey, too
Swedish research tests emotional resilience in the birds, with lessons for animal welfare. Andrew Masterson reports.
