Topline Scientists in China have used Crispr gene editing to restore vision in blind mice, according to research published Friday in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, another advance that signals potential applications in humans as scientists grapple with the thorny ethical issues the revolutionary technology raises. Researchers restored vision in mice with a genetic condition….
When two particles are entangled in the quantum mechanical sense, it’s as though some sort of hidden, invisible connection exists between them. Many have conjectures that this connection is due to a wormhole-like behavior between the entangled pairs. This is one of the key aspects of the notion that ER = EPR. (Credit: Annelisa Leinbach,…
Following years of concern, the US Environmental Protection Agency moved this week to clean up drinking water, announcing the nation’s first standards for six “forever chemicals” found in tap water. It’s a foreboding and informal name for human-made chemicals that coat nonstick pans, food packaging, and waterproof clothes before ending up in the water you drink….
Earth, currently, is our only blueprint for planetary habitability. There may be life elsewhere out there in the big, wide galaxy, but ours is the only world on which we know, for a certainty, that it has emerged. The problem is that we’ve found nothing out there that’s exactly like our own planet: of the…
Aside from their appearance in the historical records of the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, the Nabataeans didn’t keep historical documents of their own. This leaves much of their history and culture open to creative interpretation — including their origins. The Nabataeans What we do know is that the Nabataeans were a civilization of tent-dwelling nomads…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is preparing to impose some of the first new rules in a generation to restrict or ban an array of toxic chemicals that are widely used in manufacturing, presenting the White House with tough choices between its economic agenda and public health. Many of the substances in question are important…
From ShutEye to SleepScore, several smartphone apps are available if you’re trying to better understand how snoring impacts your rest, allowing you to leave the microphone on overnight to record your raucous nasal grunts and rumbling throat reverberations. But while smartphone apps are helpful for tracking the presence of snores, their accuracy remains an issue when…
Maat Mons is displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus. Magellan. … [+] (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images Researchers have found evidence of active volcanism on the surface of Venus for the first time. Although the closest planet to Earth is known…
Our planet holds a lot of trash. Since the Industrial Revolution, we humans have produced 30 trillion tons of stuff – from skyscrapers and bridges to clothes and plastic bags. Much of it is still with us in the form of waste. Globally, people add 350 million tons to this total every day. What’s worse, much of the world’s garbage…
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume resources and reproduce to the limits of their environment, eventually overconsuming all the resources within it and polluting their environment so thoroughly that their own extinction is inevitable. Are humans smart enough to avoid this fate? (Credit: Yeast Colony Group, Charles University, Czech Republic) Left to…