Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Synthetic biology offers many tantalizing possibilities, but scientists consider some projects too risky to pursue.

The latest season of Black Mirror feels almost therapeutic as we peer over the cliff of civilizational collapse. Everything is awful, but at least we don't have to worry about renting out access to ...

In a world where we've grown reliant on technology, Black Mirror shows just how vulnerable we might be. The Netflix sci-fi series explores our relationship with tech, and what could happen if things ...

In Black Mirror, creator Charlie Brooker’s ever-engrossing science-fiction anthology, technology is the phantom limb of humanity. Always a vestige, hanging around, even when we can’t see it or don’t ...

For centuries, humanity has sought truth as if it were a fixed point, a universal coordinate we could all see the same way. However, in practice, truth often has as many versions as there are people ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they are chiral, or handed. Like how your left glove fits only your left hand ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kate Adamala, University of Minnesota (THE CONVERSATION) Most major biological ...