In memoriam Paul Berg, Nobel-winning pioneer of genetic engineering
The achievement was the first link in the chain of advances that has led to the genetic engineering of new therapeutic treatments for diseases and of...
How will the war in Ukraine end?
A ceasefire is the preferred solution in the global south, which sees nothing to gain from the conflict. The parties most clearly opposed to the idea...
Cocaine bear, meet cannabis raccoon and McFlurry skunk
In September 1985, the authorities discovered the body of Andrew Thornton, a drug smuggler, in a Tennessee backyard.
Jimmy Carter’s unlikely presidency
The man was not what you think. He was tough. He was extremely intimidating. Jimmy Carter was probably the most intelligent, hard-working and decent...
Genetically modified trees grown in a US forest
On Monday, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees.
EU turns crisis into a green energy sprint
What is remarkable is that the EU has not just managed to avert a crisis but “turbocharged the green transition,” potentially enough to knock a full...
In memoriam: Roger C Schank, theorist of AI, dies at 76
Roger C Schank, a scientist who made influential contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and then, as an academic, author and...
An age of impunity rages across the world
Impunity is the exercise of power without accountability, which becomes, in starkest form, the commission of crimes without punishment
