The Dark Side of Gene Editing for Medical Treatments
Gene editing promises to eradicate previously incurable illnesses, but its use of human embryos to develop new treatments leaves b…
Forever Young? World's First Human Trial Tests Cellular Rejuvenation
Can aging be reversed? A new human trial will test whether gene therapy can renew damaged cells and restore lost function.
Gerd Ganteför: The Case Against Climate Panic
In an interview with Statement, physicist Gerd Ganteför calls for less alarmism and more rationality in the climate debate. Panic-…
Sweden’s Billionaire Boom Defies the Inequality Script
Do more billionaires necessarily mean more inequality? A new Swedish study challenges that assumption, suggesting that wealth crea…
Europe: the paradox of happiness
Finland remains on top, Germany climbs the ranking. Yet behind the figures of the World Happiness Report a deeper trend is taking …
Why is modern life ruining our sleep?
The quality of sleep has deteriorated over the years. An expert explains the causes and what chronic sleep deprivation can lead to…
Beyond the Headlines: Eight Reasons for Optimism
Amid wars and political tension, good news rarely makes the headlines. Yet beyond the daily noise, important breakthroughs continu…
Musk's U-turn on the road to Mars
Some of the steps taken by the world’s richest man suggest that even he is, for now, keeping his feet on the ground. Yet on Earth,…
Flying cyborgs? Spy pigeons are being developed by a company linked to Putin's daughter
The Russians have apparently overtaken the space billionaire, who is focusing on colonizing neighboring planets.
Google's design DNA, British spying, and French geopolitics
Štandard wrote about artificial intelligence tools capable of designing synthetic DNA in November last year. A geneticist from Goo…
The Demise of Humanity? Japanese Artificial Skin and the Fight Against the Terminator
Who would want to be informed about illness by their skin glowing? Are banks preparing to reveal the existence of extraterrestrial…
A new lemon-shaped planet raining diamonds has been discovered
The discovery was made by the James Webb Space Telescope, and it is a planet with a mass similar to Jupiter, orbiting extremely cl…
A child as a design piece? How to edit DNA
Already after the first experiments with the editing of the children's genome, there were critical voices of ethicists who warned …
News in the tech world: AI medicine from Facebook and the Chinese Death Star
Artificial intelligence is detecting "extraterrestrial" signals at high speed, processing medical data from a vast database, and m…
Chinese scientists have achieved rejuvenation in monkeys by implanting human cells
The heads of state of Russia and China recently discussed the possibility of extending human life to up to 150 years. As we can se…