Why build a machine out of plastic or metal when you can build it out of DNA? This question may set off ethical alarm bells, but for the first time, scientists are reporting they’ve done just that. In ...

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One hundred years ago, it was easy to tell when something was a machine. Machines were “hard and clanky, metallic, and pretty heavy,” as developmental biologist Michael Levin tells Inverse. But lately ...

As a child, Susan Hockfield took apart anything she got her hands on to figure out how it worked. One time it was a watch; another time, her mother’s iron. Her interest in the anatomy of the physical ...