Category: 1. Edi-Choice

David Liu has been having a good run.

On May 15, the New England Journal of Medicine published what has become a high-profile case of a 5-month-old boy called KJ with a deadly genetic disorder, who became the first to receive a personalized…

Hidden in the greenery of southern Tongatapu sits a boulder so large that locals barely noticed it was out of place. Geologists now say this limestone giant, known as Maka Lahi – Tongan for “Big Rock” – is the heaviest cliff-top boulder…

When we think of flightless birds, aggressive is probably not the word that…

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In 2021, near the city of Vacaria in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, a young female canid was found injured after being hit by a car. What initially seemed like an unfortunate accident soon sparked intrigue among veterinarians and…

The concept of terraforming Mars — transforming the planet’s climate to support life as we know it — has long belonged to the realm of science fiction. But a new study argues that it’s time to take the idea seriously.

“Thirty years ago,…

Black holes are generally grouped into three sizes: stellar-mass black holes, which are about five to 50 times the mass of the sun; supermassive black holes, with millions to billions of times the sun’s mass; and intermediate-mass black holes,…

In a remote part of Western Australia, geologists have uncovered a mineral deposit of staggering size—one that promises to rewrite not only the map of global iron production but also our understanding of Earth’s geological history. The…

Summary: Researchers studying the tiny roundworm C. elegans have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a single brain signal controls both falling asleep and waking up. The chemical messenger FLP-11 activates a receptor called DMSR-1 in…