🧬 Genetics

• 🧬What Is Epigenetics?

  How epigenetics shapes our biology beyond DNA, influencing traits across generations through mechanisms like DNA methylation.

• 🧬Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

  Evolution has evolved since Darwin, and an emerging new synthesis expands our understanding of what it is and how it functions.

• 🧬What Is Organism-Centered Evolution?

  Explore how organisms evolve beyond genetics, delving into forces like epigenetics and cultural behaviors that shape their development and adaptation.

• 🌍What Is Cultural Evolution?

  Explore how cultural evolution shapes societies and predicts future changes, from songbirds' trills to the spread of lactose tolerance.

• 🌳A Family Tree With 27 Million Branches

  A new technique lets researchers plumb oceans of human genetic data to produce the largest ever family tree — and they’re just getting started.

• 🚬Ancestral Smoking Is Bad for You, Too

  A new study links present-day health with childhood tobacco use three generations prior

• 🏆Harmony in Hard Times

  Relive the unique 2020 Templeton Prize ceremony, where an almost empty auditorium hosted a global audience celebrating the 50th laureate.

• 🔬Expanding Views of Cancer's Causes

  A blood test for early-stage cancer holds promise for treating the many cancers caused by the accumulated “bad luck” of multicellular living

• 🧬The DNA Debate

  Dive into the DNA debate. Discover the untold story of Rosalind Franklin and the politics behind one of science's biggest breakthroughs.

• 📚Bringing the EES to the Classroom

  There’s more to inheritance than genes, and more to adaptation than selection

• 🔬Five Questions with Betül Kaçar

  Join Betül Kaçar as she explores the frontier of astrobiology and ancient DNA, shedding light on life’s cosmic journey and evolutionary constraints.

• 🔭An Evening Exploring the Unknown

  Astrophysics, Anthropology, and Journalism in Conversation at the Atlantic Festival

• 🌌Exploring the Big Questions with Aeon

  A new two-year project will fund dozens of essays and longform pieces published in one of the most innovative and engaging journals of science and thought.

• 🧬Molecular insights into historical constraints on evolution

  Replaying evolution’s early days in a lab — with resurrected, billion-year-old genes

• 🧠Using Big Data to Quantify and Cultivate Genius

  Far from being solo achievers acknowledged for pure achievement, geniuses may be largely the products of their networks.

• 🎥The Illumination Tour

  When what seems like “the ultimate curse” becomes “the ultimate state of being.”

• 🌱The dignity of plants

  An exploration of the ethical considerations surrounding genetic modification and the dignity of plants in Switzerland.

• 🍖The corned beef plague

  An exploration of obesity trends in the Pacific Islands and beyond.