Biotech

Ig Nobel Prize creator Marc Abrahams shows off this unusual disaster-preparedness device before a night discussing humor and science at the 92nd Street Y.

Chemists create micro swimmers that can be controlled by light

Millions of patients depend on a rare radioactive form of one element to scan them for disease. But the old nuclear reactors that make it are shutting down

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the efforts to create vaccine platforms for rapid responses to epidemics.

Knitting and weaving artificial muscles could help create soft exoskeletons that people with disabilities could wear under their clothes to help them walk, according to new research

Last-minute proposal would address CRISPR and other cutting-edge technologies

Cells, as medicine, now can be switched on and off with electricity

Animals, plants and fungi may also harbor these infectious agents

Baseline data on body rhythms can make the wrist monitors work like “check engine” lights, a new study suggests

Where did it come from? How do organisms use it without self-destructing? And what else can it do?

For-profit companies use our anonymized medical data in a huge secondary market. Advances in computing make it increasingly possible for outsiders to identify people from among the hundreds of millions of patients in dossiers, putting intimate secrets about our bodies and minds at risk