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What’s next for the gene-edited children from CRISPR trial in China?
By Nicolas Gutierrez C. Illustration of a DNA double helix Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock MORE than a billion people live in China,…
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Ancient galaxy’s spin suggests universe’s first stars quickly coalesced into disks
Astronomers have detected the rotation of a galaxy dating back to just 550 million years after the big bang, when…
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Who Is Liable When AI Kills?
Who is responsible when AI harms someone? A California jury may soon have to decide. In December 2019, a person…
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What Air Pollution in South Korea Can Teach the World about Misinformation
Climate change is an issue that is deeply entwined with lifestyle and one that requires collective action to solve. However,…
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Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
In a drab hearing room in Austin, Tex., members of the State Board of Education, seated at small desks arranged…
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How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
After the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, in a haze of horror and…
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Chimpanzees hunt for fruit in video game to test navigation skills
Testing how chimpanzees navigate in virtual environments could help researchers understand why they prefer certain routes in the wild over…
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How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life
Ten years ago scientists announced one of the most momentous discoveries in physics: the Higgs boson. The particle, predicted 48 years…
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AI generates photorealistic 3D scenes and lets you edit them as well
Artificial intelligence that creates realistic three-dimensional images could be run on a laptop and make it faster and easier to…
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We must accept we won’t meet 1.5°C climate target, says report
Social, political and technological inertia mean the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures is…
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