Art Courtesy of Malia Kuo Genetic testing platforms like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have been in the spotlight for many years now. These testing programs have

Art Courtesy of Breanna Brownson Look at your hands. Look closely at the patterns drawn on the tips of your fingers. The fingerprint is present

Art Courtesy of Kara Tao Plant-animal hybrids are here, and they are exactly what they sound like. In the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK, wild

Art Courtesy of Courtney Johnson The human body is a machine. At a fundamental level, it depends on electrical currents within cells and electrical signals

Art Courtesy of Kara Tao Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… hundreds of autonomous self-burying seed carriers? These small

Art Courtesy of Yurou Liu Most of the stars we see in the night sky are billions of years old, their light only just now

Art by Breanna Brownson. Conan the Bacterium may be Earth’s most promising astronaut. Named the world’s “toughest organism,” Deinococcus radiodurans—nicknamed Conan—could survive for a whopping

Art by Malia Kuo. For thousands of years, human innovation has been defined by the creation of big tools: the wheel, the watch, the scythe.

Art by Sophia Zhao. Flying over the cliffs of Kauai, a drone known as the Mamba sweeps the area on a rescue mission, searching for