Author: masha

On many a Geneva morning, deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border, Dr. James Beacham, a particle physicist working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, is wrestling with one of the most profound questions humanity can ask: Will everything, from the swirling galaxies we admire through telescopes to...

In August 2023, at Zuzalu’s experimental city in Montenegro, tech entrepreneur–turned–biohacker Adam Gries launched Vitalism, a manifesto that treats aging as a curable condition instead of an unavoidable fate. Now, he’s leading a global grassroots movement through dynamic conferences, targeted research grants, and an audacious...

In the heart of Dubai’s desert, amid windswept dunes and gleaming skyscrapers, lies a scene so surreal it could be mistaken for performance art: an embryologist, arm plunged up to the elbow into a 1,300-kilogram camel, meticulously collecting semen samples. This moment, equal parts grotesque...

Whether he’s in a high-tech lab or wandering forest trails, US mycologist Morgan Rockwell treats mushrooms like circuit boards, transforming mycelium into self-growing computers, environmental sensors and even stewards of our planet. Drawing on decades of bioengineering, dreams of space exploration and indigenous wisdom, he...