In recent years, a dilemma has taken over the world: is utilizing CRISPR technology to edit genomes morally justified? CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” In organisms such as archaea an...
Society today has become so heavily dependent on technology that we cease to even recognize its presence anymore. Not only has it allowed for daily tasks to be completed with ease, it is also a foundational tenet around which...
Type 1 diabetes has been a worldwide major health concern for decades. Currently there is no established cure for the condition, but management strategies have been, for the most part, sufficient in dealing with the disease.
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For Elon Musk, it all started with a dream—a dream to build a constellation of thousands of satellites in space, providing high speed internet access to the world’s entire population. On November 11, 2019, that dream became a r...
Google’s state-of-the-art quantum computer, dubbed “Sycamore,” has solved a problem deemed virtually impossible for normal machines. Sycamore completed what would have taken the most powerful supercomputers about 10,000 yea...
On October 2, 2019, researchers from the University of Berkley published a new study that left everyone in awe. With the help of advanced editing software, they were able to model fruit flies after the monarch butterfly and modif...
On September 23, 2019, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held a climate action summit in New York City, the location of the UN’s headquarters. Currently, average temperatures across the Earth are at an all-time hi...
On October 9th, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
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Despite the emergence of recent movements to combat climate change, coal, a major source of carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global warming, still makes up 38% of the world’s power. In fact, this figure remains uncha...
Under the pseudonyms “Lulu” and “Nana”, two Chinese twins born in October of 2018 reportedly had their genes modified in ways which might have significantly improved their memory and cognition.
A team of Chinese researchers led by He Jian...
