Biology

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...