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.
‘Common sense’ is not always based on scientific evidence
Even today, the truth of scientific evidence depends on it being presented in a convincing way.
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.
Going, going, gone. Soon the largest creature on Earth will be a cow
Modelling finds that in a human world, big animals run the greatest risk of extinction. Andrew Masterson reports.
