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WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, CRISPR Breakthroughs, and More

At the WIRED Health summit in Boston on September 9, we hosted some of the leading experts...

The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu said that later...

MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA

When Jean-Marie Kauth first read the Make America Healthy Again commission report, released by the White House...

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Imagine that someone gives you a list of...

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas...

Recycled glass could help fend off coastal erosion

In the 1960s, saltwater intrusion in a southeast Louisiana swamp killed the trees and plants that lived...

Scientists made a biological quantum bit out of a fluorescent protein

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Future Martians will need to breathe. It won’t be easy

Aaron Tremper is the editorial assistant for Science News Explores. He has a B.A. in English...

Octopus arms are adaptable but some are favored for particular jobs

All eight arms of an octopus can be used for whatever their cephalopod owner wishes, but some...

Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes

Crispr gene-editing technology has demonstrated its revolutionary potential in recent years: It has been used to treat...

Crystallized dino eggs provide a peek into the tumultuous Late Cretaceous

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do...
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