Articles by

Matt Reynolds

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

The horses are slick with sweat, veins bulging, feet dancing through a maelstrom of legs and mallets...

This Startup Says It Can Clean Your Blood of Microplastics

This is a non-exhaustive list of places microplastics have been found: Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench, Antarctic...

Mississippi Passes Bill Banning Lab-Grown Meat

The Mississippi House of Representatives just passed a bill banning cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi the third...

Scientists Just Created a ‘Woolly Mouse’ With Mammoth-Like Fur

De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating what the company calls the...

DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System

Four representatives of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force have been installed at...

USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers

The widespread layoff of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown vital research into disarray, according to former...

‘Dengue Boy’ Is the Weird, Fleshy Novel You Need Right Now

Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the...

Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire

A little after 6:25 am on November 8, 2018, a 911 dispatcher received the first report of...