Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents
Trains entering and exiting London’s Clapham Junction StationJack Taylor/Getty Images A number…
Wind-assisted cargo ships could more than halve shipping emissions
The Canopée is a sail-assisted cargo shipJODY AMIET/AFP via Getty Images The…
Doubts cast over ‘wild’ claim that magnetic control can turn on genes
Controlling our genes via a magnetic field would be transformativeScience Lab /…
Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life
Alkaline sodium hydroxide was dumped into the Gulf of Maine to test…
Can we genetically improve humans using George Church’s famous list?
Biologist George Church maintains a list of potentially beneficial gene variantsDON EMMERT/AFP…
Hybrid megapests evolving in Brazil are threat to crops worldwide
A corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea) larva feeding on a cotton plantDebra Ferguson/Design…
We must completely change the way we build homes to stay below 2°C
The Sawa residential building in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is made from woodHollandse…
Benefits of mRNA cancer vaccines could exceed $75 billion in US alone
The mRNA cancer vaccines now in development come with large economic benefitsEugene/Getty…
Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes
We may have misunderstood the genetic basis of psychiatric conditionsCNRI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY…
Human cloning: Could the super-rich be doing it in secret?
Could the super-rich be secretly pursuing human cloning?Juan Roballo/Shutterstock Over decades of…
