Category: 3. Tech

What steps can be taken to address climate change while simultaneously addressing global energy demands? This is what a recent study published in Environmental Research Letters hopes to address as a team of…

The researchers used a new version of CRISPR technology, called base editing, that can replace a single letter of DNA at a specific location. 

Previous versions of CRISPR have generally been used to delete genes, not rewrite them to restore…

In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for…

In 2013, Amy Cohen experienced the unthinkable for a parent. It was a mild October…

The news: A bill that allows clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana. Under the legislation, doctors can apply for a license to open an experimental treatment clinic and recommend and sell therapies not approved by the…

But long-running government programs that monitor the snowpack across the West are among those being threatened by cuts across the US federal government. Also potentially in trouble: carbon dioxide measurements in Hawaii, hurricane forecasting…

“You can see it as a sort of super coding agent,” says Pushmeet Kohli, a vice president at Google DeepMind who leads its AI for Science teams. “It doesn’t just propose a piece of code or an edit, it actually produces a result that maybe…

There are plenty of negative stereotypes about games and gamers. And it’s true…

The idea that individuals have a right to access experimental treatments has in fact failed in US courts in the past, says Carl Coleman, a bioethicist and legal scholar at Seton Hall in New Jersey. 

He points to a case from 20 years ago: In the…

The Sierra’s frozen reservoir provides about a third of California’s water and most of what comes out of the faucets, shower heads, and sprinklers in the towns and cities of northwestern Nevada. As it melts through the spring and summer, dam…