science and technology

More than a billion people live in China, but researchers in the country have proposed the creation of a healthcare institute to look after just three: Amy and twins Lulu and Nana. These three children are the first genetically engineered humans in history.

An August wildfire cut off electricity to Del Norte County, California. Residents might have been in the dark for weeks—except for the use of a makeshift microgrid that generated power locally.

You may know you can gauge the age of a tree by counting its rings. But did you know that tree rings can help researchers predict future changes in climate? Students at Lamont-Doherty’s Tree Ring Lab (TRL) are currently engaged in this work, in a field of study called dendrochronology: the scientific study of tree rings and the variation of growth patterns through time. Researchers can analyze tree rings to reconstruct historical climate phenomena and to predict future conditions in an associated field of study, dendroclimatology.

Two Iranian and Turkish companies signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in knowledge-based areas.

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia have overhauled their design units to launch an overarching design management for the two brands, according to Hyundai Motor Group, Friday.

Google LLC faces an antitrust probe in Japan after the technology giant allegedly pushed smartphone makers to use its search platform by default on their devices, the nation's fair trade watchdog said Monday.

Every 17 years, billions of cicadas emerge from the soil in the eastern United States to climb trees, mate, and lay eggs. For a few weeks, the plump insects provide an all-you-can-eat buffet for birds, mammals, and other predators. “It’s a phenomenal explosion to an ecosystem,” says Kathy Williams, an insect ecologist at San Diego State University.

On September 19, US Food and Drug Administration advisors met to discuss how to move research on artificial wombs from animals into humans. These medical devices are designed to give extremely premature infants a bit more time to develop in a womblike environment before entering the outside world. They have been tested with hundreds of lambs (and some piglets), but animal models can’t fully predict how the technology will work for humans. 

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force has successfully put the 'Noor-3' satellite into orbit.

A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever collected from the surface of an asteroid has landed in the Utah desert seven years after the mission’s launch. “We have a touchdown!” Flight Control announced on Sunday.