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The CRISPR gene scissors can correct mutations in DNA very precisely. However, the treatment of genetic defects can lead to new errors in the genome that may pose health risks. (Image: iStock/luismmolina)

Scientists Uncover Hidden Risks in CRISPR Gene Editing for Rare Immune Disease

Categories Health, Technology

The experimental plants pollinated by bumblebees displayed significant differenes on limestone soil (r) and tuff soil (l).

Plants Thrive with Diverse Pollinator and Herbivore Interactions

Categories Life & Non-humans

Companies whose CEOs acknowledged the human impact of the pandemic had better stock prices than those whose CEOs did not. (Image: istock.com/Rasi Bhadramani)

Compassionate CEOs Linked to Better Stock Performance During COVID-19 Crisis

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

Recent studies show that many lemurs do not live individually, but in pairs of females and males. (Image: istock.com/Goddard_Photography)

Early primates likely lived in pairs

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

“Do I have a feeling of making a positive impact on community and society?” In US survey data 19 percent of respondents answered “never” or “rarely” to the question. (Image: istock.com/azatvaleev)

Many people feel their jobs are pointless

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

A tick on a leaf

New virus discovered in Swiss ticks

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Lady justice with scale

Conflicting motives govern sense of fairness

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences

Megalodon eating a killer whale

Megalodon could eat prey the size of entire killer whales

Categories Life & Non-humans

Researchers studied bushfire incidences from 2012 to 2020 within eastern Australia, and found that the severe megafires that occurred during 2019-20 were much larger and more concentrated across the landscape than in previous years. IMAGE: MATT PALMER, UNSPLASH

Simultaneous climate events risk damaging entire socioeconomic systems

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Social Sciences

High up in the canopy, a group of chimpanzees hunts a smaller primate species: a red colobus monkey.

Communication makes hunting easier for chimpanzees

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Antidepressants inhibit cancer growth in mice

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Growing Miniature Human Tissue on the International Space Station

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space

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