The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem
In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked a clone of one of the world’s largest sheep species. Court documents allege that...
COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large
Complicating the matter is the position of China, which accounts for one-third of global emissions, more than any other country. Despite this, it is still considered by the UN to...
The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests
“There are lots of different tools that are available to law enforcement. Facial recognition is one of those tools that it's about expediency,” said Nicole Napolitano, director of research at...
Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers
“Today’s ecosystem is based around living volunteers,” Ossium’s CEO and cofounder, Kevin Caldwell, says. While the US organ donor system has existed for decades, bone marrow has never been regularly...
Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First Time
Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically within other...
Scientists Have Pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to New Limits
In the world of quantum physics, another record appears to have just been broken. In a paper listed on the preprint site ArXiv, researchers at the University of Science and...
The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients
Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize–winning technology Crispr is now being given to patients.Called Casgevy, the gene-editing treatment is for people...
How to Design a Real-Life Hot Wheels Loop
I get a minimum height of 2.5R. So if the loop is 4 meters high (with a radius of 2 meters), the car would have to start 5 meters above...
What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA
Zeldin, a 44-year-old attorney and former Army lieutenant, does not have a background in environmental policy. He made his foray into politics through the New York State Senate in 2011,...
Standing Desks Are Better for Your Health—but Still Not Enough
Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death. The obvious response to this frightful fate is to not...