A 6-year-old boy with a rare neurodegenerative disease became the first to receive life-changing gene therapy, after his mother’s fundraising and Sikh teaching…

Genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Spy Cave, Belgium (50,000 years ago) revealed high genetic diversity, disproving inbreeding as their downfall. Thi…

General Intuition raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, aiming to create adaptable AI for real-world tasks. This matters because AI cur…

Un-0’s AI image generator uses 1,000x less power than Stable Diffusion or Midjourney by replacing multi-step noise processing with direct image prediction. Thi…

Scientists identified the LEUTX gene as the master switch that activates human development immediately after fertilization. This discovery could enable early d…

Colossal Biosciences will sequence the genomes of all 1,600 U.S. endangered species, creating a genetic database to aid conservation efforts like tracking inbr…

Two physicists published findings in *Nature* arguing the universe's large-scale structure varies by direction, contradicting the cosmological principle that t…

A 2015 Tianjin warehouse explosion video was falsely claimed as a Russian airstrike killing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This hoax highlights the g…

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy help average 15% fat loss, but up to 30% see less than 5% weight loss after six months; poor sleep, medications, and geneti…

Scientists aim to eradicate the screwworm, a flesh-eating pest harming livestock, using a new gene-editing tool called an "extinction drive." This technology c…

Onion-induced tearing varies widely among people due to sensitivity differences to syn-Propanethial-S-oxide, a chemical released when cutting onions. Understan…