From “Pig Wings” to “Semi-Living Worry Dolls,” artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr are using high tech tools to challenge our conception of what life is — and could be.
Marianne Moore loved learning about animals, and she crammed scientific detail into her poems.
A play about chimpanzees can make actors go bananas.
A science-fiction radio play by the author Lydia Millet imagines a future in which humans have wiped out the world’s plants.
Indie band The Low Anthem finds something deeply moving about Charles Darwin’s lonesome quest.
Geneticist Spencer Wells is tracking the human race back to its origin, and coming up with some surprises in our backstory.
