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Researchers have voiced concerns after South Africa updated its health-research ethics guidelines to include a new section on heritable (or germline) human genome editing. Scientists say this could put the
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius (artist’s illustration) buried the city of Pompeii, Italy, in at least six metres of volcanic debris.Credit: Culture Club/Bridgeman/Getty Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph
Mark Thomson will take the helm at CERN at the end of next year. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty British particle physicist Mark Thomson has been named as the next
What do the brain map of the fruit fly, the location of exoplanet WASP-77 A b, the identification of antibiotic resistance in the bacterium Escherichia coli and crop security of
Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 inches of rain, according to local