Personal-genome tests are blurring the boundary between experts and lay people. Barbara Prainsack, Jenny Reardon and a team of international collaborators urge regulators to rethink outdated models of regulation

Redouan Bshary reviews Vibrational Communication in Animals by Peggy S. M. Hill and Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals by Jack P. Hailman

The dawn of the nuclear era finds its voice in Doctor Atomic, an opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the making of the first atom bomb. With a new production showing in New York, composer John Adams explains how physicists have reacted to the work, and how writing it has changed his view of nuclear weapons