Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

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Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.

Verily, a branch of Google's parent company, recently finished its second study of a counterintuitive technique that kills mosquitoes without using traditional insect sprays.
Big Think expert Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, issued a statement responding to a scientist's recent claim that he helped create the world's first genetically edited babies.
The companies launching satellites aboard the SpaceX rocket hope to revolutionize the Internet of Things.
Project Dragonfly aims to help the Chinese government build a censored search engine that would "blacklist" information that officials don't like.
The unmanned lander will help scientists learn more about the interior of Mars and the development of rocky planets.
The CEO once said a self-sustaining Mars colony won't work if it's wildly expensive for each person to make the voyage.
A Chinese researcher has sparked controversy after claiming to have used gene-editing technology known as CRISPR to help make the world's first genetically modified babies.