A new paper employs a simple technique—counting words in patent texts—to trace the history of American invention, from chemistry to computers.
A researcher’s claim that two CRISPR-edited baby girls have been born has been met with widespread condemnation from scientists and ethicists alike.
Trump’s executive orders have made it downstream to authors.
A political scientist explains why American democracy is so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.
A scientist has claimed he used the revolutionary CRISPR gene technology on human embryos, igniting a global controversy.
The problem for government employees isn’t just low morale. It’s the manufactured chaos.
Claims of a genetic basis for alcoholism, a leading theorist argues are not scientifically supportable and ignore the crucial link between personal values and self-destructive or antisocial behavior
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in jaunty cursive loops; Emily and Charlotte Brontë, meanwhile, wrote on scraps of paper so tiny their penmanship requires a magnifying glass.
Through years of medical sleuthing, she was able to connect her withered muscles to a stranger’s well-defined ones, pinpointing the gene that caused them both.
The technology is genuinely useful for scientific discovery, but its applications are less dramatic than you might think.