Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social…
Author: Matt Reynolds
How to Live Forever
A Nobel Prize–winning biologist explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
Around 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the…
Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has found a way to reprogram elephant cells, a technical…
A Startup’s Mission to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth Is Being Made Into a Docuseries
Colossal Biosciences has started work on a five-year-long docuseries that follows its de-extinction efforts. That’s just…
Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion
Upside Foods is putting plans for its Illinois-based cultivated meat factory on hold and laying off…
Farming Prioritizes Cows and Cars—Not People
Farmers and scientists are getting better at growing more crops on less land, but they’re not…
You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
The only two restaurants in the US to sell cultivated meat have paused sales for now,…
Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Schoolchildren
Big Beef is wooing science teachers with webinars and lesson plans in an attempt to change…
The Murky Campaign to Discredit Lab-Grown Meat
A new ad campaign is targeting the cultivated meat industry on TV and online. Industry supporters…