Something shifted in a laboratory last year that most people haven’t heard about yet. Quietly, without fanfare, a team of bioengineers crossed a threshold that researchers have been chasing for three…
Something happened in a laboratory last spring that the researchers weren’t fully prepared to explain. Five patients walked in carrying diseases that had defined — and devastated — their entire lives….
Scientists are building living things from scratch, and most people have no idea how far this has already gone. We’re not talking about gene editing or cloning — we’re talking about organisms assemble…
Something cracked last year, and most people missed it. Chinese researchers quietly published results showing a quantum processor had factored integers used in RSA encryption — the same encryption pro…
Something happened in a lab last year that scientists had been waiting 50 years to see. A machine solved a problem — and the solution arrived so fast, researchers thought their instruments were broken…
Something happened in a laboratory last spring that the scientists involved still struggle to explain. A machine — not a human, not a team of Nobel laureates — looked at a biological problem that had…
A child born with a fatal genetic disease — one that doctors have treated the same way for 50 years — walked out of a hospital this spring with functioning cells she was never supposed to have. So her…
Something unprecedented just happened in a lab, and most people missed it. Researchers have built a functional computing system not from silicon, not from quantum bits, but from living biological cell…
Something happened in a laboratory in Cambridge last year that the lead researcher described, in a private email later leaked to colleagues, as “the moment we stopped being afraid of death.” That emai…
Something happened in a laboratory last year that scientists had quietly agreed would never happen in their lifetimes. They were wrong — and the implications are going to take years to fully absorb. C…