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Career global security expert Richard Clarke identifies three potential game changing events that could adversely affect the wellbeing of humanity itself.

A new system proposes a voucher system for the .S. that could increase organ donations.

Every week one of our brave editors scours the comment section for gems. Did you make the cut? 

T.C. Boyle will read his short story “Are We Not Men?” at the Los Angeles Hope Festival on Sunday, May 21. The event is free but seats are limited. RSVP here.

Creating a race of super soldiers is off the table, too.   

The first clinical trials on humans of CRISPR-Cas9-edited genes has begun in China.

Has technology advanced enough that we could stitch together body parts and reanimate the dead? Bill Nye one-ups that old-school Frankenstein vision with newer (and cooler) scientific possibilities.

Researchers plan on making human cells resistant to infection, radiation, and even cancer.   

Harvard scientists say they are two years away from creating a hybrid embryo with mammoth traits.

University of California, Davis researchers announce the disappointing results of their implantation of human stem cells in pigs.

Genetic engineering, utilizing CRISPR, promises to change human lives by bringing an end to disease while irreversibly modifying our gene pool.

What would happen if gene editing fell into the wrong hands?   

Does life work like our technology? Is life under the hood just like a car sporting souped-up complexity? 

Libertarian transhumanist Zoltan Istvan is running for Governor of California in 2018 and, among other things, he wants to conquer aging and death for all!

Imagine cancer is no longer an issue, HIV is wiped out, and the signs of aging come on so slowly, one appears young forever. Gene editing promises much. Incurable diseases could become curable, new drugs could be created to battle cancer, and genetic diseases could be corrected. It has potentialities for research too. But we aren’t there yet. And there are lots of pitfalls we need to avoid.   

A new study sheds light on the evolutionary connection between fish fins and human fingers.

You are already a cyborg! Here’s 10 ways you could merge even more with technology in the coming decade.