Powerful New Gene-Editing Tool May Finally Be Used on Humans
The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tech is nearing use for a proposed cancer treatment experiment.
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The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tech is nearing use for a proposed cancer treatment experiment.
A team of researchers just confirmed the presence of oxygen in a galaxy 13.1 billion light years away—the furthest oxygen has ever been detected.
The Zika virus has been at epidemic levels in South and Central America since the summer of last year, yet many questions remain unanswered.
On 23rd May, for the first time in 4 million years, carbon dioxide concentrations cleared 400 parts per million (ppm) at the South Pole.
That's no moon. Or, is it?
It’s a scientific first, and it could lead to effective treatments — but do the ends justify the means?
On the list of things you’re not advised to do in closed quarters with a limited oxygen supply, lighting a fire definitely ranks high. But this week, NASA did exactly that.
For the second time this year, physicists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) are giddy with excitement.
By applying a 500-year-old philosophical principle, a Cornell University researcher has shown that the Fermi Paradox's Great Silence is not unexpected.
University of Bath study suggests colder beans mean a better-tasting brew.
Elon Musk described the problem as an “RUD=Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly :)” – that's a cock-up to us laymen.
London's popular Science Museum has an entire new fun wing under development, with the £6m Wonderlab set to open for business this October. Read more >>
Did you really consider that when you slap a nappy onto your child?
NASA's Mars recruiting posters make some compelling reasons for you to go off and die in space. Read More >>
And it points to a new method for predicting powerful eruptions.
A pair of astronomers has discovered a first-of-its-kind organic molecule in an enormous star-forming cloud thousands of light years away.
