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The US Patent Office will now resolve a dispute over genome-editing technology through an arcane proceeding that technically should no…
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The US Patent Office will now resolve a dispute over genome-editing technology through an arcane proceeding that technically should no…
When the World Health Organization says something, you usually listen, so when the WHO classifies processed red meat—like bacon!—as a…
Physicists have been “a decade away” from nuclear fusion for…decades. The post Nope, Nuclear Fusion Still Isn’t Here appeared first…
After researchers found a colistin-resistance gene in China this year, scientists realized it’s since spread to Europe as well. The…
Martin Shkreli, the hedge fund trader turned pharma bro, angered pretty much every decent person in the world by raising…
The blood testing company was a media darling until a Wall Street Journal article took Theranos to task for its…
Science certainly did not solve sexism this year, but scientists started talking about it more openly and loudly and, oh,…
2015 was not the year scientists disproved the conservation of momentum so, uh, 2015 is also not the year NASA…
Everything has its good, bad, and ugly—you’ve probably heard a lot of science’s good by now, so this is all…
The northern white rhino is yet another step closer to extinction. The post The Northern White Rhinos Are Almost All…