Gene therapy now used to treat diseases ranging from neuromuscular disorders to cancer to blindness, despite repeated setbacks before the turn of the century. However, success is frequently conditional. Some of these treatments help treat disease, but they come with a hefty price tag and other barriers to access: Even if patients are aware that…
You’ve strengthened the protections for the privacy of your online accounts, so you can confidently put your phone in your pocket and walk out the door. However, many people are unaware that their phones’ software can track their every action. Apple and Google can collect data about how you use your device, whether you have…
It’s difficult to keep the pace of everything this happened with Facebook recently. Since Frances Haugen, the company’s former data scientist, At the beginning of October, he made public thousands of papers (now known as The Facebook Papers) and spoke before a Senate subcommittee. The platform’s inner workings and challenges have become increasingly visible to…
Working from home has become the standard, which means business laptops are getting a lot more use. Worse, your laptop nearing the end of its life cycle and starting to chug as you try to get work done. Rather than waiting for your IT person to locate, pack and ship a new laptop. You can…
Biosphere 2: THE CITY OF ORACLE, ARIZONA — A traveler enters a coastal fog desert that reaches toward a savanna through the door of a glass pyramid, leaving the arid heat of Arizona behind. A rocky shore is lapped by a Lilliputian ocean. A corridor leads to a humid rain forest with 90-foot-tall vine-necklaced trees.…
National park tourism has been steadily increasing for years as people from all walks of life find the emotional and physical benefits of spending time outdoors. Unfortunately, more people equals more traffic on paths, which makes finding peace in the woods practically impossible. Overcrowding, however, does more than impair the outdoor experience; all those humans…
Cascade Tuholske is a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN); Chris Funk is the director of the University of California Santa Barbara’s Climate Hazards Center; and Kathryn Grace is an associate professor of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. This article first appeared on…
You’re sure to find a tangled mess of electrical gadget chargers in your rubbish drawer at home, many of which are probably obsolete. The European Union proposed a new law late last week that would address this issue by mandating all tiny electronics (such as phones, tablets, portable speakers, and cameras) to have the same…
The greatest earthquake ever recorded struck off the coast of southern Chile on May 22, 1960. Denis Garcia, a resident of the adjacent port town Corral, observed something strange after the shaking ceased. When he saw Corral Bay, he was looking for his family, not thinking they were safe and on high ground. The water…
When you turn on a brand-new computer, you expect the latest cutting-edge technology, from stunning pictures to crystal-clear audio. While your experience will be satisfactory straight out of the box, desktop operating systems like Windows and macOS cater to the interests and preferences of the majority of users, which may or may not be the…