“Wooly mice” a test run for mammoth gene editing
With most targeted changes not mammoth-specific, the focus is on gene editing...
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John Timmer
01:20
Mars’ polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward
That, plus data from the InSight lander, gives us a new view into Mars' interior...
John Timmer
05:20
Turning the Moon into a fuel depot will take a lot of power
Getting oxygen from regolith takes 24 kWh per kilogram, and we'd need tonnes...
John Timmer
06:23
AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics
Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky...
John Timmer
09:21
22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold
The first Trump administration tried this, and Congress passed a rule to block it...
John Timmer
18:22
One less thing to worry about in 2025: Yellowstone probably won’t go boom
There's not enough melted material near the surface to trigger a massive eruption...
John Timmer
09:20
Microsoft and Atom Computing combine for quantum error correction demo
New work provides a good view of where the field currently stands...
John Timmer
01:22
Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
Similar feeding events could explain the rapid growth of supermassive black holes...
John Timmer
12:19
A how-to for ethical geoengineering research
The American Geophysical Union releases a framework for getting it right...
John Timmer
17:22
Simple voltage pulse can restore capacity to Li-Si batteries
The bad news is that there's not a lot of pure Li-Si batteries in use...
