Biotech Barbie Had a Hard YearCathy Tie (briefly) married a gene-editing outlaw and got barred from China. So she threw herself a 30th birthday party at Carnegie Hall.
The Billionaire Who Wired San FranciscoThe city, post-COVID, is tougher on crime, more surveilled, and more moderate. No citizen has shaped it more than Chris Larsen.
ByLauren Smiley
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The Cursed GenerationCOVID wrecked high school. AI is coming for their first jobs. Good luck to the new grads.
ByRyu Spaeth
tomorrow
Are ‘Designer Babies’ a Scam?Anxious parents are buying $50,000 genetic tests that might not be worth much of anything.
Frankenstein’s SheepCloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ecosystems.
ByAlice Hines
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The AI Kids Take San FranciscoBrilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.
ByKerry Howley
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Who Will Own the ‘God Molecule’?Psychedelics devotees are racing biotech entrepreneurs to turn 5-MeO-DMT, one of the world’s most powerful drugs, into a pharmaceutical.
ByKimon de Greef
tomorrow
Rolling the Dice on Bird FluWe may be more equipped for another pandemic than you think. Still, cross your fingers.
Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our AgeHe insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?
COVID Is a VibeAfter Omicron, the pandemic will be what we make of it.
ByDavid Wallace-Wells
tomorrow
Two Paths for OmicronDepending on how you look at the U.S. data for this new variant, the story it tells inspires either relief or dread.
ByDavid Wallace-Wells
tomorrow
The Case for Climate ReparationsA trillion tons of carbon hangs in the air, put there by the world’s rich, an existential threat to its poor. Can we remove it?
ByDavid Wallace-Wells
tomorrow
Weathering the WeatherMental-health professionals are trying to figure out how to talk about the climate.
How Did the End of the World Become Old News?This month, the world saw an unprecedented global heat wave, wildfires in the Arctic Circle — and virtually no headlines about climate change.
