2008-2010

Imagine yourself gazing at the sky on a summer night. You look in the direction of a particular star that, you have heard, has a special planet orbiting around it. Although you cannot actually see the planet—you can barely see the star itself—you know it...

With a bit of luck and a new space telescope, within five years we could know the answer to a question that humanity has pondered for millennia: Is there life beyond Earth? With initial results from the planet-finding Kepler satellite to be released in...

The 2011 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science is presented to George Church for innovative and creative contributions to genomic science, including the development of DNA sequencing technologies, as well as for his subsequent efforts to...

A team of scientists is re-engineering cells to create a mirror image of life on Earth. The best-case scenario? A whole new branch of biology. Worst case? A new ice age. Dimitar Sasselov was at the end of a long day of having his mind blown, when the...