PolicySeptember 1, 2016
Would You Live Forever (If You Could)?
Uploading your brain into a computer is probably impossible. But for sake of argument: What would you do if it weren’t?
Stories by Hillary Rosner
is a freelance writer based in Colorado. She has written for National Geographic, the New York Times and Wired, among other publications.
ConservationAugust 1, 2015
How to Move a Forest of Genes
Sally Aitken of the University of British Columbia is using state-of-the art genomics and climate-mapping technologies to match trees to rapidly changing climates
EnvironmentAugust 1, 2015
Threatened Forests Cannot Move, So Scientists Are Relocating Their Genes
Trees can't walk to a better place as climate worsens. So scientists are relocating helpful genes instead
EnvironmentOctober 1, 2014
Can Science Avert a Coffee Crisis?
Researchers are racing to breed beneficial new traits into the dangerously homogeneous coffee crop before it succumbs to disease or other threats
EnvironmentSeptember 1, 2013
Return of the Natives: How Wild Bees Will Save Our Agricultural System
Reviving native bee species could save honeybees--and our agricultural system--from collapse
February 1, 2013
Public Participation in Research Back in Vogue with Ascent of "Citizen Science"
A modest effort to enlist amateur bird-watchers in the cause of ornithology wound up producing a fire hose of data and helping rewrite the rules of science