Policy
Would You Live Forever (If You Could)?
Uploading your brain into a computer is probably impossible. But for sake of argument: What would you do if it weren’t?
Stories by Hillary Rosner
Conservation
How to Move a Forest of Genes
Sally Aitken of the University of British Columbia is using state-of-the art genomics and climate-mapping technologies to match trees to rapidly changing climates
Environment
Threatened Forests Cannot Move, So Scientists Are Relocating Their Genes
Trees can't walk to a better place as climate worsens. So scientists are relocating helpful genes instead
Environment
Can Science Avert a Coffee Crisis?
Researchers are racing to breed beneficial new traits into the dangerously homogeneous coffee crop before it succumbs to disease or other threats
Environment
Return of the Natives: How Wild Bees Will Save Our Agricultural System
Reviving native bee species could save honeybees--and our agricultural system--from collapse
Evolutionary Biology
Public Participation in Research Back in Vogue with Ascent of "Citizen Science"
A modest effort to enlist amateur bird-watchers in the cause of ornithology wound up producing a fire hose of data and helping rewrite the rules of science
