CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

Insider threats reshaped security a decade ago. Now, enterprise security is facing its next defining test: the rise of non-human risk. Security relies on governing machines that act and influence ...

Since 2019, MIT researchers have published a new concept called prime editing, which is more precise than regular CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. As a result, it has fewer off-target effects and less chance ...

A genomic analysis of over 1,200 people from across South Africa reveals how colonial-era European, Indigenous Khoe-San peoples, and enslaved people contributed to the modern-day gene pool in South ...

When Maria Branyas Morera died last year at 117 years and 168 days old, she was the oldest known person in the world. Before she died, she asked doctors to study her. Dr. Manel Esteller, chairman of ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

‘Sly & The Family Stone,’ seen here in 1968 are the subject of a documentary directed by Questlove. Michael Ochs Archives/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A new calendar year means a new set of ...

It’s never ideal being the second-most anything in the world, but there are worse places to be, too. The same applies to the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses Gen 2, which were the second-most exciting thing ...

Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional response to the fallout from his controversial monologue has ignited fierce backlash, with conservative strategist Andrew Kolvet blasting the late-night host as a “liar” who ...