Category Opinion

In August, bioengineers, chemists, plant biologists and food scientists based in China and Singapore came together in a closed hybrid conference with one ambitious goal: to unlock the massive economic and food-security promise of plant-based and cultivated meat. As biochemist…

The summer of 1965, the first gynecologist I went to for a diaphragm turned me down. He was within his rights — birth control had only just become legal for married people, and contraception for unmarried people like me would…

Climate change is making heatwaves more frequent and severe. In June, at least 1,300 people died because of heat during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, marking a higher toll than in previous years. People living in the tropics…