New Virus-Like Particles Can Deliver CRISPR to Any Cell in the Body
Gene therapy is a lot like landing a Mars rover.
Hear me out. The cargo—a rover or gene editing tools—is stuffed inside a highly technical...
Sensor-Packed ‘Electronic Skin’ Controls Robots With Haptic Feedback
Being able to beam yourself into a robotic body has all kinds of applications, from the practical to the fanciful. Existing interfaces that could...
How Will the Universe End? Scientists Seek an Answer in the Biggest Galaxy Map...
This week, astrophysicists presented the biggest map of the universe yet.
Having nailed down the position of 7.5 million galaxies, the map is larger and...
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 15)
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In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig
Roni Caryn Rabin | The New York Times
"A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart...
Evolution Tells Us We Might Be the Only Intelligent Life in...
Are we alone in the universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection, or an improbable fluke. By...
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This Autonomous Delivery Robot Has External Airbags in Case It Hits a Person
Autonomous delivery was already on multiple companies’ research and development agenda before the pandemic, but when people stopped wanting to leave their homes it...
New Research: Memories May Be Stored in the Connections Between Brain Cells
All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago,...
Watch a Jet Suit Pilot Deliver Supplies in a Mountain Warfare Rescue
In 2020 a jet suit pilot flew up a mountain to test whether it would make sense for emergency responders in wilderness areas to...
A New Gene Editing Tool Could Rival CRISPR, and Makes Millions...
With CRISPR’s meteoric rise as a gene editing marvel, it’s easy to forget its lowly origins: it was first discovered as a quirk of...
Breakthrough Shot of Engineered Immune Cells Helps Heal Heart Damage
It’s now possible to transform immune cells directly into “super soldiers” inside the body.
I’m talking about CAR-T, the immunotherapy that revolutionized blood cancer treatment....
These Will Be the Earliest Use Cases for Quantum Computers
Quantum computing is expected to revolutionize a broad swathe of industries. But as the technology edges closer to commercialization, what will the earliest use...
How Could the Big Bang Arise From Nothing?
READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for...
How a Handful of Prehistoric Geniuses Launched Humanity’s Technological Revolution
For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes...
Next Week You’ll Be Able to Eat ‘Chicken’ Made From Plants at KFC
It’s a new year, and for millions of people that brings resolutions like exercising more and eating healthier. Ice cream? Gone. Potato chips? In...
