There’s a kind of arbitrage in innovation that’s easy to miss because it doesn’t look like arbitrage at all. It lives in the gap between what physics allows and what institutions assume is possible.

U.S. Olympians Erin Jackson and Alysa Liu demonstrate how different personality traits and cognitive styles can lead to elite athletic success.

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

In 2011, two teams of scientists created an uproar after revealing they had separately mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus to spread among ferrets through the air, something it didn’t do naturally. The ...

Scientists have long debated the merits and risks of tinkering with viruses and bacteria, which the president claims caused the coronavirus pandemic. By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes President Trump ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries without proper oversight of the ...

President Trump on Monday signed a series of health-focused executive actions, including one cracking down on gain-of-function research, which has been at the center of debates over how the COVID-19 ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday banning all federal funding for "dangerous" gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries and blocking all federal funding for ...

Gain-of-function research became controversial during the COVID-19 pandemic. But without it, “we’re just flying in the dark” when it comes to H5N1, said Felicia Goodrum, a molecular virologist at the ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

1 Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI, USA. 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI, USA. We show that an ...