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Gene editing's first approved treatments were celebrated — and expensive. The new long-term data answers the questions the approval headlines couldn't.
Every year adds thousands of sequenced ancient genomes. The story they tell — of repeated mass movements, plagues and population turnovers — keeps overturning settled history.
The arXiv preprint making headlines is bold, early and unverified. A reader's guide to extraordinary claims — in physics and everywhere else.
A new survey instrument is finding planets faster than astronomers can write them up. What a million-candidate sky means for the search for habitable worlds.
Two demonstration reactors under construction will tell the decade's story. A status report on the machines that must turn physics into power plants.