dataviz Interactive dataviz showing how dog breeds are related Clive Thompson

1st Year = 31st Dog Year'ish Dog Years is to Human Years as 7 is to 1 = Wrong Andrew Yi

genetics Scientists use DNA Typewriter to encode K-pop lyrics into human genomes Thom Dunn

biology New study reveals that domesticated horses may have originally come from Russia Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Nicholson Baker writes on the "lab leak hypothesis" of COVID-19 Clive Thompson

News Highly contagious COVID variant first found in UK is now in California and Colorado, could change course of pandemic in US Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 A group of MIT and Harvard scientists are biohacking themselves with a DIY COVID-19 vaccine Thom Dunn

surveillance When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance Cory Doctorow

politics Two GOP reps meet racist troll Chuck Johnson 'to discuss genetic testing and DNA' Xeni Jardin

california Google sister company is trialing a mosquito eradication plan in Fresno Cory Doctorow

Science Why Indonesia's Bajau people can stay submerged under water longer than you or me Séamus Bellamy

biology The astounding present and dizzying future of synthetic biology Rob Reid

Science Analysis of North America's weeds reveal the crops, trade, and cuisine of early indigenous people Cory Doctorow

genetics The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018) Rob Reid

Science New York's rat population has genetically diverged into "uptown" and "downtown" subpopulation Cory Doctorow

Science Why race is not a thing, according to genetics Andrea James

Back from the dead DNA proves the amazing "tree lobster" insect still alive after 100 years of supposed extinction Carla Sinclair

Science A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: DNA, individuals, and species Cory Doctorow