The gene editing tool CRISPR may be crucial in fighting off one of the deadliest viruses circulating the globe—a virus that has killed hundreds of millions since 2020. It’s not Covid-19, of course. The virus is a type of especially aggressive bird flu that’s decimated chicken populations worldwide.

On Monday, Waymo announced on X that it’s expanding its city-wide, fully autonomous robotaxi service to thousands more riders in San Francisco. The company had been testing a service area of nearly the whole city (around 47 square miles) with employees and, later, a group of test riders. But most

Sunburns are terrible. The skin blisters and peels. Even a light brush from putting on clothes or tucking into bed sheets is agony. Now imagine having those blisters at just six months old. But the sun isn’t the culprit; your genes are. Thousands of people in the US have dystrophic epidermolysis

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Discussions about the state of the world too often focus on the first statement: The news highlights what is going wrong, rarely mentioning any positive development. A

In the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, a suburb just north of Boston, a cadre of engineers and scientists in white coats inspected an orderly stack of brick-sized, gunmetal-gray steel ingots on a desk inside a neon-illuminated lab space. What they were looking at was a batch of steel created using