Technology
What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA
What to expect from Donald Trump’s EPA pick: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy and platitudes about the importance...
Standing Desks Are Better for Your Health—but Still Not...
Two recent studies offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks of working on your feet.
How to Design a Real-Life Hot Wheels Loop
You should absolutely not build this thing. But it’s still fun to think through the physics.
The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients
It’s been a year since the gene-editing treatment Casgevy was approved for sickle cell disease and a related blood disorder. It’s...
Scientists Have Pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to...
A research team in China has held atoms in a state of quantum superposition for 23 minutes, suggesting tantalizing new possibilities...
Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize...
A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could revolutionize...
Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is...
San Francisco–based Ossium Health has carried out three transplants for cancer patients using stem cells from deceased donors’ bone...
The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests
Privacy advocates worry banning masks at protests will encourage harassment, while cops' high-tech tools render the rules unnecessary.
COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and...
The annual UN climate summit has kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan, with lofty goals, but many global leaders missing.
The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem
After a Montana man illegally cloned and bred an endangered giant sheep species, government agencies must now contend with the illicit...
