Obamacare Paved the Way for That Gattaca-Style Employer’s Law
A new Republican bill would loosen privacy protections for workers. And it would use parts of the Affordable Care Act…
The Feds Are Spending Millions to Help You Survive Nuclear War
For a decade the government has been subsidizing contingency plans for the worst of the worst: nuclear disaster. The post…
A New Lab-Built Fungus Eats Sugar and Burps Out Drugs
Scientists are building the first eukaryote genome from scratch. The post A New Lab-Built Fungus Eats Sugar and Burps Out…
Telemedicine Could Be Great, if People Stopped Using It Like Uber
Dialing a doctor has never been easier, but that doesn’t mean telemedicine is working out the way policymakers hoped. The…
Sure, Subways Are Gross. But Antibiotics Aren’t the Answer
An on-demand pharmacy’s New York subway ad promotes overuse of antibiotics—one of the leading causes of antibiotic resistance. The post…
A Bizarre Bacteria Could Be the Key to Controlling Mosquitoes
For 50 years, scientists have known that Wolbachia can cause sterility in mosquitoes and other insects. But now they finally…
What, You Can’t Tell Two Lemurs Apart? Computers Can
New software that sees spots and stripes are helping biologists track animals in the wild without the tranquilizer guns and…
The Long-Shot Bid to Put Crispr in the Hands of the People
Legal experts are filing a petition. They want the federal government to step in and bring Crispr back to the…
Old-Guard Archivists Keep Federal Data Safer Than You Think
Long before Trump, open government and open data evangelists had been preserving all kinds of data collected and stored by…
Mail-Order STD Tests Make Sharing Results as Easy as Sending a Snap
But they might have more of an impact on testing companies’ bottom lines than on antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea rates. The post…