Shi En Kim
Climate warming could increase land available to grow crops — but also boost the spread of plant diseases
The agricultural impact of climate change would be a little more straightforward, if it occurred in a world where crops ...
A human protein genetically engineered into wheat plants increases yields by 50%. Is this dramatic tweak replicable?
It’s not enough to grow more food—humanity needs to grow more efficiently. With an eye toward feeding the world’s growing ...
Recreation of Earth’s ancient hydrothermal vents suggests life could emerge even on ‘hellish worlds’
One theory for how life emerged suggests that it originated in the sea, at alkaline hydrothermal vents. It’s impossible to ...
Stealth technology could offer ‘secure, selective and precise’ delivery system for cancer drugs
Earlier this year, researchers assembled an intelligent and autonomous nanostructure entirely out of DNA that delivered and released a cancer drug. Cancer ...
