biology

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections than currently die from cancer.

Powassan virus is deadly and our lack of knowledge regarding it can be scary.

Motherboard meets with Doug Vakoch, founder of METI International, an organization dedicated to sending interstellar messages to extraterrestrial lifeforms.

Dr. Chris Mason is using genetics to understand how humans will prepare for -and defend themselves against— life in space.

Motherboard meets up with Lynn Rothschild, an astrobiologist at NASA who is working to define life in space.

In this episode, we visit performance artist Henry David Nobody Jr.'s studio to see his provocative and transformative self-portrait masks, meet the LA City Municipal Dance Squad, and face mortality with Jae Rhim Lee's infinity burial suits.

In this episode of Visionaries, we meet Lucy McRae, a self-described science fiction artist, filmmaker, and body architect who eventually wants to go to space.

VICE News gets rare access to Europe's largest monkey testing lab.

Dans le dernier épisode de Chiraq, nous retrouvons Chief Keef chez lui, pour un après-midi détente consacré à la destruction d'allées pavillonnaires en Quad.

This bio and art collaboration features striking images produced from microscopic photos of bacteria, cells infected with viruses, and cancer cells.

By reversing its aging process, Japan's tiny Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is one of the only known animals that has figured out how to defeat death.