These technologies could help put a stop to animal testing
Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. Testing potential skin irritants
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The Download: gene-edited babies, and cleaning up copper
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The Download: down the Mandela effect rabbit hole, and the promise of a vaccine for colds
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Engineering better care
Every Monday, more than a hundred members of Giovanni Traverso’s Laboratory for Translational Engineering (L4TE) fill a large classroom at
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The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna
When the Palestinian stem-cell scientist Jacob Hanna was stopped while entering the US last May, airport customs agents took him
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The Download: the rehabilitation of AI art, and the scary truth about antimicrobial resistance
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This startup thinks slime mold can help us design better cities
It is a yellow blob with no brain, yet some researchers believe a curious organism known as slime mold could
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Meet the man building a starter kit for civilization
You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home
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The Download: Big Tech’s carbon removals plans, and the next wave of nuclear reactors
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