CRISPR gene-editing technology lets scientists make precise changes to an organism’s DNA. Invented in 2012 by Jennifer Doudna ...

And that’s a problem. Logging, urban sprawl and ranching have shrunk Brazil’s Atlantic forest, the tree’s habitat, to an ...

China is in the midst of a big push for more and better practical training. Around 34m young people currently study in ...

Signs of a bubble aren’t necessarily signs that it’s time to sell, because they precede the peak of the mania by an ...

A deal that would sate the Trump administration and leave Mr Maduro in power is difficult to imagine; so is Mr Maduro ...

A democratic transition could set off a bonanza worth almost $2trn, reckons the opposition leader and Nobel laureate ...

Ms Greene’s defection was the latest break between the president and a stalwart of his MAGA movement, and a sign that Mr ...

Mr Xi reportedly told her that China was willing to “work with Japan to…advance the strategic, mutually beneficial ...

During America’s war on terror after 2001, Denmark rarely applied the “national caveats” used by other allies to exempt their ...

Traditional geothermal works only in places where heat of 150°C to 200°C and permeable fractures happen to occur within 4km ...

Let’s accept, for the sake of argument, that this volatility sticks around, and it becomes the norm for governments to wear ...

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