Articles by

Tina Hesman Saey

One possible recipe for life on Titan is a bust

Hopes for life inside bubbles on Titan have deflated. Oceans of liquid methane and ethane on...

‘Smart underwear’ measures how often humans fart

Everybody farts. The question is how often? And how much gas is too much gas to pass?...

Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not

Finding out what gut microbes a person carries may not be as easy as many companies...

‘Project Hail Mary’ made us wonder how to survive a trip to interstellar space

I have long puzzled over something in Andy Weir’s 2021 book Project Hail Mary: Why did...

Real-world medical questions stump AI chatbots

AI chatbots may seem medical–book smart but their grades falter when interacting with real people. In the...

Artificial lungs kept a man alive until he could get a transplant

Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 hours with artificial...

AI tool AlphaGenome predicts how one typo can change a genetic story

A new deep-learning AI model may help scientists better decipher the plot of the genetic instruction book...

What the new nutrition guidelines get wrong about fat

When new dietary guidelines for Americans came out in early January, I couldn’t help but notice “healthy...