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Between 15,000 and 25,000 years ago, humans started hanging out with a particularly friendly breed of wolves: dogs. Scientists assume that these ancient pooches were first drawn to our settlements by ...

For the first time, a type of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, called prime editing, has been performed in “mini-organs” to correct the mutation causing cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is thought to ...

The Ball Method is a new short film that tells the story of African American chemist Alice Ball who found an effective treatment for leprosy in 1915 when she was 23 years old. Written and directed by ...

They each stood four Burj Khalifas tall, contained a population the size of San Francisco, and plugged into a network of tunnels sweeping the face of the planet. Any bug-boffin would recognize these ...

On October 4, 2018, an Ohio firefighter and a former corporate defense attorney filed a class-action lawsuit representing every American citizen with a certain class of chemicals in their blood — ...

In many species, not long after fertilization, the embryo implants into the uterus wall, preparing it for further development. In humans this implantation occurs at around day eight to nine after ...

While phage therapy shows great promise in the fight against resistant bacteria, these superbugs are constantly adapting and can evolve quickly to even resist phage infections. Fortunately for us, ...

The contagion begins its sweep, commuting with workers from farm to farm. It seems like a local problem at first, but eventually crosses borders and oceans to engulf the whole world. This contagion, ...

Whether you are getting driving directions from your phone or tagging the location of an Instagram photo, the use of GPS (Global Positioning System) has become seamlessly integrated into our daily ...

Dark matter makes up almost 30% of our universe, yet we still aren’t sure exactly what it is. One suggestion is that dark matter is made up of primordial black holes (PBHs), black holes formed in the ...

I think there’s often a lot of misconceptions people have about what it means to know how to program, when actually thinking of a programming language as an actual language makes much more sense.