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Why a gene-editing breakthrough has some experts worried - CNN
New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not safe.
Ancient Roman May Have Been the World’s First Collector of Sea Monster Fossils - Gizmodo
Whether this person was an early paleontologist or a fanatic of Greek myths, researchers aren’t sure.
A Hidden Nuclear Weapon Could Already Be Orbiting Earth. This MIT Physicist Has a Plan to Find It - Gizmodo
The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit—but we currently have no way to verify that satellites aren’t carrying them.
Is Life Just Different? - Quanta Magazine
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?
Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature
This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combination, identifying those essential for mouse embryonic stem c…
Humans And Neanderthals Shared a Culture For 20,000 Years, Cave Discovery Suggests - ScienceAlert
We know from the traces left behind in our DNA that Homo sapiens met and mingled with Neanderthals long before our species eventually came to dominate.