“We never created a supervirus.” Ralph Baric explains gain-of-function research.
In May, the longtime coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric found himself at the center of the…
Meet the people who warn the world about new covid variants
In March, when covid cases began spiking around India, Bani Jolly went hunting for answers…
We just got our best-ever look at the inside of Mars
NASA’s InSight robotic lander has just given us our first look deep inside a planet other than Earth. …
DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science
Back in December 2020, DeepMind took the world of biology by surprise when it solved…
Is the UK’s pingdemic good or bad? Yes.
Oscar Maung-Haley, 24, was working a part-time job in a bar in Manchester, England, when…
An albino opossum proves CRISPR works for marsupials, too
Mice: check. Lizards: check. Squid: check. Marsupials … check. CRISPR has been used to modify…
How Zello keeps people connected during South Africa’s unrest
On June 29, former South African president Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in…
Blue Origin takes its first passengers to space
This time, there was a blastoff. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three other civilians…
Podcast: Playing the job market
Increasingly, job seekers need to pass a series of tests in the form of artificial-intelligence…
Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself
The Facebook engineer was itching to know why his date hadn’t responded to his messages.…