Suspended by suction cups, one of the Giant Magellan Telescope's seven primary mirror segments is hoisted onto its support structure by a crane at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. Inside the Richard F ...

Scientist Kate Adamala doesn’t remember exactly when she realized her lab at the University of Minnesota was working on something potentially dangerous — so dangerous in fact that some researchers ...

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said. By Carl Zimmer On Thursday, 38 prominent biologists ...

Buddy Martin (center) inspects components inside the support cell with Giant Magellan Telescope engineers Tomas Krasuski (left) and Colby Gottschalk (right). This visual may only be used in the ...

Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the ...