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Cystic fibrosis affects the lungs, but delivering gene therapy to the defective cells is difficult. Science Photo Library/Getty Images CRISPR gene editing therapy has the potential…
A scorching hot day in Bucharest, Romania, June 2019 lcv / Alamy In the future, city dwellers could beat the heat with clothes made from new…
The malaria drug artemisinin is extracted from the plant wormwood.Frederick J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images A drug already used to treat malaria may also be effective…
Australian paleontologists have discovered the fossilized skeleton of a previously unknown Anhangeria pterosaur, dating back 100 million years. Reconstructing your life Haliskia petersenii Image courtesy of…
Favoritism is a result of our individual preferences for certain colors, tastes, faces, and places, which are influenced by our evolutionary past. Studies show that we…
Nearly a decade has passed since hackers leaked a ton of personal information from Ashley Madison, the notorious dating site that primarily targeted men looking to…
Mid-air collision To find out whether air taxi passengers need to worry about collisions with birds, a number of tests were carried out by a German…
The signature on this essay is a pen name.My daughter is one of the kids the U.S. Surgeon General has warned about. Our nation’s children have…
Do newborns hear sounds and are aware of pain? In the past, boys undergoing circumcision were often not given anesthesia, in part because it was thought…
Part of an installation by filmmaker Michael Shindhelm, lamenting the artificial prolongation of women’s lives (below). Basel Cultural Foundation H. Geiger/KBH.G The end of agingMichael ShindhelmH.…
IThere's been a lot of speculation regarding the outlook for the games industry in 2024. Following a surge of investment during the pandemic, the industry experienced…
Some problems are harder than others IGDB/Nintendo Researchers have discovered that it is mathematically impossible to determine whether someone can complete a particular level of the…
Helldivers 2Helldivers 2, reminiscent of the sci-fi military satire and hyper-grotesque brutality of Starship Troopers, took the gaming world by storm upon its release in February.…
Since the 1920s, Edwin Hubble Ever since it was discovered that the universe is expanding, astrophysicists have been asking themselves the question, “Where does matter come…
TerraForm Labs has agreed to a $4.47 billion civil settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. They were found liable by a jury for misleading…
asteroid: Rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Most asteroids orbit the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, an area astronomers call the asteroid belt.astronomyThe…
This week’s picks Where everyone knows your name Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson ( sometimes)Widely available, with weekly episodes The two Cheers stars reunite and rekindle their…
NASA had to reassure the public that there was no emergency on the International Space Station after audio from a medical training drill was mistakenly played…
Tesla shareholders are set to approve Elon Musk’s $56 billion remuneration package by a significant margin before the company’s important annual general meeting later today. The…
During its annual developers conference on Monday, Apple introduced Apple Intelligence, an eagerly anticipated artificial intelligence system designed to personalize user experiences, automate tasks, and, as…
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America has fascinated scholars for centuries with its incredible astronomical calendar and magnificent step pyramids. But alongside their glorious culture,…
A beam refers to a stream of particles or photons moving from a source to a target, exerting pushing force rather than pulling force on the…
At an estimated distance of 140 parsecs (457 light years), the L-type subdwarf star CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) has a total velocity of at least…
Coloured dyes were essential commodities in the Mediterranean region during the Late Bronze Age. Berger and his colleagues unearthed a purple dye factory at site K10…
Residents are expressing concerns about the facility itself and the potential for monkeys to escape, which has occurred in the past. Similar incidents have been reported…
A building damaged by a drone strike in Kiev in October 2022Roman Fritzina/Associated Press/Alamy A group of climate experts estimates that the first two years of…
ADDICTIVE STOCK CREATIVES/Alamy; AdoBe Stock Kathy Schwartz had been sober for 10 years, but battling cravings was a daily struggle. “They were always in my head,”…
Quantum light is generated when a laser is shone on certain crystals Jaka Waxwing The liquid crystals found in television screens have made it easy to…
Martin Rees at the 2017 Hay Literary Festival (Hay-on-Wye, UK) Alamy Stock Photo The Oscars. The Booker Prize. The Nobel Prize. All of the year’s landmark…
Kamran Dibba, an anesthesiologist at the University of Michigan, and his colleagues have found that during sleep, some neurons not only replay the recent past but…
About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen first began to accumulate in meaningful levels in Earth's atmosphere, setting the stage for the emergence of complex life.…
Elon Musk has submitted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against ChatGPT developer OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, claiming that the startup has deviated from…
When the Australian soap opera Neighbours was canceled in 2022, it signified the end of a cultural institution that had been on air for 37 years.…
Apple shares surged over 7% to reach a record high at the close of trading on Tuesday following the announcement of new artificial intelligence features known…
It has been recognized for many years that smoking is extremely detrimental to health, and stopping smoking or avoiding it altogether is one of the most…
Voters in Northern California will have the opportunity to voice their opinion on a controversial proposal supported by Silicon Valley billionaires to construct a new city…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope discovered a giant asteroid impact around Beta Gactris, the second brightest star in the constellation Scorpio. Chen othersBeta…
ohThe rational view on the Elon Musk compensation issue is that Tesla shareholders should stick to their guns and re-approve his astronomical $56 billion compensation, sending…
Illustration of the newly identified species, Haliskia petersenii Gabriel Ugueto A 100-million-year-old pterosaur fossil discovered in Australia may have had the largest, most muscular tongue of…
Warp drive malfunction could emit gravitational wavesEverett Collection / Alamy There's no evidence that aliens are zipping around the galaxy in faster-than-light warp drive spacecraft, but…