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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Loopholes in the Law Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination
GINA only applies to health insurance and employment, but a new Republican bill would weaken even those protections.
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Greg Wood / Reuters The Search for MH370 Revealed Secrets of the Deep Ocean
A remote part of the Indian Ocean has become, by chance, one of the best-mapped parts of the underwater world.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivai / AP How Pharma Companies Use 'Citizen Petitions' to Keep Drug Prices High
Ninety-two percent of citizen petitions filed against generics come from brand-name drug companies.
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National Park Service The 'Dark Matter' of the Microbial World
You've probably heard about your gut bacteria—now get to know your gut archaea.
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The Best Email I've Ever Received From a Scientist
When I first contacted Nikolai Formozov about his paper on a 30,000-year-old squirrel originally found by Gulag prisoners, which…
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Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences An Ice-Age Squirrel Found by Gulag Prisoners Gets Its Scientific Due
“We should be very thankful to those unnamed prisoners who saved those carcasses.”
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Wikimedia Commons The Girls With Radioactive Bones
How the “radium girls” revealed the danger of radiation, and fought for safety standards
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Sagel & Kranefeld / Getty The Long History of Discrimination in Pain Medicine
X-rays and other “objective" instruments influenced controversies about whose pain should be believed.
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Deb Snelson / Getty The 'Rhododendron Situation' and the Tricky Politics of Invasive Plants
“Nothing short of calling the army is going to put it right,” an Irish politician recently said of the shrub’s takeover of a national park.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Library Is the Leading Theory About Alzheimer's Wrong?
Yet another failed drug trial has prompted soul-searching about the “amyloid hypothesis.”
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Daniel Maurer / AP What Can You Do With the World's Largest Family Tree?
Scientists are beginning to find out.
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Aly Song / Reuters China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom
The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI.
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Susan Walsh / AP Photo What the CRISPR Patent Decision Means for Gene Editing
The U.S. Patent Office has finally ruled on the century’s biggest biotech discovery.
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CDC/ James Gathany The Parasite That Lures Mosquitoes to Humans
Malaria can alter the behavior of insects that spread it.
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John Vizcaino / Reuters Patients Are Ditching Opioid Pills for Weed
Can marijuana help solve the opioid epidemic?
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Chris Ryan / Getty Are Opioids Behind a Cluster of Unusual Amnesia Cases?
Officials found 14 incidents of amnesia in Massachusetts patients with a history of using the painkillers.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Looking Back at Canada's Political Fight Over Science
The country’s last prime minister prevented some scientists from talking to the media, while making cuts to research budgets.
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Reuters The DNA Test as Horoscope
Inside the growing world of lifestyle genetics tests
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters What Is the Right Way to Wash Your Hands?
Redefining “clean” in an era of the skin microbiome
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Pascal Rossignol / Reuters The FDA Wants to Regulate Gene-Editing That Makes Cows Less Horny
What happens when new technology meets old laws
