Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (the Real Kind), Part 1 Science journalist, author and Nature editor Adam Rutherford talks about new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself, which ...

“It’s hard not to get excited” about the near future that Adam Rutherford foresees, said Chloë Schama in Smithsonian. An editor at Nature with a Ph.D. in genetics, he’s a deft explainer, and he sets a ...

Spider webs combine a strength and elasticity unmatched by anything we humans can make. They don’t trigger much of an immune response in us and are “insoluble in water, two facts that the classical ...

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford (2022, Weidenfeld & Nicholson), 268 pages. I have been writing about the history of eugenics for decades, but I never ...

In the Victorian era, in the shadow of Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution, a sinister ideology took root — eugenics. It was an attempt to impose political control upon humanity’s unruly DNA by ...

Genetics expert Adam Rutherford discusses the science of "Life" and "Ex Machina", and why alien life could be the most significant discovery in human history. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The scientist, TV host, and book author touts the potential benefits of playing God The scientist, TV host, and ...

This is probably going to come as a shock, which may strike you as kind of funny in a moment, but “soup had its greatest moment in 1953.” That claim, outrageous to anyone who has recently enjoyed a ...

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“This is a short book about a big subject,” said Katy Guest in The Guardian: a nuanced and “persuasive” account of what Adam Rutherford calls the “dark history and troubling present of eugenics”. With ...