First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium. By Corrado Nai.

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[Fiction] A eulogy to the reference human. By Eliomer H. Kaas.

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Once a primal instinct, olfaction is now being mapped, measured, and modeled by machines. By Taylor Rayne.

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The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab. By Ella Watkins-Dulaney.

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From early experiments on fertility and embryonic development to becoming the first cloned eukaryote from an adult cell, Xenopus frogs have had an outsized influence on the life sciences. By Matt Lubin.

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Finding evidence of “sentience” is fraught, whether in a comatose patient, an animal, or a neural net. By Ralph Stefan Weir.

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A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale. By Max Schons.

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A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved. By Brady Huggett.

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Cultivarium, a focused research organization, has built a custom electroporator to engineer non-model organisms at scale. By Niko McCarty.

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What the evolution of scientific methods says about their future. By Andrew Hunt.

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