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When the bone marrow transplant failed to treat my leukaemia, it was like: this is it, there’s nothing else now. The doctors were telling my parents it was a matter of weeks. Not years, not months, ...

Daniel Cressy, the first person in southeastern Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene editing therapy, shares how the treatment changed his life. US resumes powerful ...

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On the northwestern shore of Africa, some 150 miles south of the Canary Islands, the coastline slightly bulges in a pimple known as Cape Bojador. For Europeans in the early 15th century, Cape Bojador ...

Gracie Abrams will embark on her The Look at My Life Tour this winter in support of her upcoming album Daughter From Hell. “We’re baaaaaack!!!!!,” Abrams wrote on social media after announcing the ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. My son’s Little League season started not long ago. A few games in, a sign appeared, mounted to a ...

Choosing a portable Bluetooth speaker in 2026 is less about brand names and more about balancing real-world needs like sound quality, battery life, and durability. A modern portable Bluetooth speaker ...

Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, ...

I have tried AI photo editing tools on a bunch of phones by now, and most of them follow the same pattern. They look great in a demo, seem useful in theory, and then become wildly unpredictable the ...

Astronomers can use telescopes to find specific molecules in the atmospheres of neighboring planets, in nebulae – clouds of interstellar dust and gas – hundreds or thousands of light-years away, or in ...