A baby benefits from personalised gene editing in the clinic Summary Scientists used base editing, a form of genome editing, to correct a specific disease-causing mutation in an infant diagnosed…
The One Feature That Keeps Me From Recommending Flip Phones Summary The Slashdot post links to a Verge review by Allison Johnson that calls out dust ingress as the primary…
Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel Summary Los Alamos physicist Terence Tarnowsky has published simulation results suggesting conventional nuclear waste could be converted…
Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacentres in 2030 Content Summary Kairos Power, backed by Google and working with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), plans to build the…
The Wall Street Journal reports the US now has more than 18 million cancer survivors — over 5% of the population when people living with cancer are included. Advances in…
Raw ingredients: turning algal protein into mock meat Summary Stefan Guldin, a materials scientist at the Technical University of Munich and co-director of Proteins4Singapore, is applying his expertise in self-assembly…
Why chocolate tastes so good: microbes that fine-tune its flavour Summary Scientists report that simple changes in fermentation conditions — pH, temperature and the microbial community — strongly influence chocolate…
Why nurturing the gut microbiota could resolve depression and anxiety Summary This Nature feature examines growing evidence that the gut microbiota influences mood disorders such as depression and anxiety. It…
A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive Summary Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the newest snapshot of the long‑running GNU Hurd effort. This release finally ships a working…
Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy Summary Researchers studying the Australian solar ecosystem find peer-to-peer (P2P) energy sharing between households can be more lucrative…
