Issue 25

The massively multiplayer online game was created in the 1980s.

We’ve invented microbes that can eat plastic, detect landmines, and extract rare metals. They’ve been swallowed by a black hole.

People are right to want less police intrusion in their lives. The way to get there is more precision, not less.

Who benefits when we ask transit to pursue social goals?

What if instead of editing a gene, or blocking the protein it produces, you could simply switch it off?

Its royal family used a charm offensive where military power failed.

If it had a clear effect on children we would know by now.

Economic growth gives us cleaner air, healthier rivers, and safer workplaces. Happier animals could be next.

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

Selective breeding has pushed horses to the limits of biology. But at what cost?