What We Really Risk as Humans If We Allow Gene-Edited Babies to Be a Thing
A second woman is said to be pregnant with a gene-edited baby in China, according to reports this year. It follows revelations last November that gene-…
Author: The Conversation
Our Battle Against Bugs: It’s Time to End Chemical Warfare
Insects are important wildlife often overlooked in urban habitats. What we do notice are the cockroaches, ants and mosquitoes in and around our homes. …
Scientists Detect Consciousness via Brain Signals in Breakthrough Study
Humans have learned to travel through space, eradicate diseases and understand nature at the breathtakingly tiny level of fundamental particles. Yet we…
3 Philosophers Set Up a Booth on a Street Corner — Here’s What People Asked
The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read “Ask a Philosopher” – at the entrance to the New York City subw…
Want to Improve Your Mood? It’s Time to Ditch the Junk Food
Worldwide, more than 300 million people live with depression. Without effective treatment, the condition can make it difficult to work and maintain rel…
Colonization of the Americas Killed 10% of World Population, Causing the Earth to Cool Down
While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60m people. But the first European conta…
Antibiotic Resistant ‘Superbug’ Genes Found in the Arctic That Shouldn’t Be There
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is spreading rapidly worldwide and has even been called a global threat to humans as serious as climate change. Exces…
It’s Cold! A Physiologist Explains How to Keep Your Body Feeling Warm
Whether waiting for a bus, playing outside or walking the dog – during the colder winter season, everyone is looking for ways to stay warm. Luckily, th…
Meet the California Teen Who Collected 40,000 Golf Balls to Save the Ocean
Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches…
China Just Landed a Spacecraft on the Dark Side of the Moon
In a spectacular few days for solar system exploration – during which NASA whizzed the New Horizons spacecraft past the Kuiper Belt object 2009 MU69 (s…
