You Want Better Beer? Good. Here’s a Better Barley Genome
A New Sequence of the Barley Genome Could Open the Taps on Better Beer
A new high-resolution sequence of the barley genome could pave the way for better malt.
Marching Brought Scientists Together—But What Do They Do Now?
The March for Science Brought Scientists Together—But What Do They Do Now?
Arguing for political activism may have been what science needed, but it could also make the fights ahead harder to win.
Who’ll Really Benefit From Verily’s Exhaustive Health Study?
Who’ll Really Benefit From Google’s Exhaustive Health Study?
When it comes to big, ambitious science conducted on human beings, you have to ask: Who benefits? Is it you? Other people? Or the people collecting the data?
The Shocking Lack of Science Behind Lethal Injections
Arkansas Executions: The Shocking Lack of Science Behind Lethal Injections
No one knows if lethal injection really is more humane than other execution methods. And they can't really find out.
Trump’s Budget Would Break American Science, Today and Tomorrow
A Year Ago, The Dress Murdered the Idea of Objective Color
