LONGFORM

We're at the beginning of full-fledged gene-editing revolution that has enabled scientists to fashion novel plants and animals with thrilling—and sometimes troubling—ease.

How Valerie Vomit, Julius Sneezer, and the rest of the gang enraged parents, offended everyone, and made more money off of boogers than Kleenex.

Iranian researchers have made great strides in stem cell research.

At only 3 inches long and weighing about 60 grams, the uterus isn’t a flashy, attention-grabbing organ. But it is pretty amazing.

The brain imprints itself on the inside of the skull. These impressions have been key to the study of the evolution of the human brain.

A hemispherectomy is a rare surgical procedure in which half the brain is removed. Most people with half a brain live pretty normal lives.

A brash adventurer, a mysterious skull, and the debate that divided archaeology

Scientists put these bugs to work in museums doing exactly what they do in nature.

(And why so many people have never heard of it.)

Peter Rowe’s path carves a 372-mile loop through a landscape that looks extraterrestrial: the South Australian outback.

A bizarre medieval manuscript written in a language no one can read has baffled the world’s best cryptologists, stumped the most powerful code-breaking computers, and been written off as a masterful hoax. Can the hive mind finally unlock the secrets of th