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Prof Suneel Kateriya of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, who was a direct PhD student of Nobel laureate Peter ...

More than 80% of Earth’s oceans remain unexplored, unobserved, and unmapped. That statistic alone should stop you in your tracks — we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the deepest ...

The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute partnered with Santa Cruz Works to host a rooftop mixer in late October 2025 that fostered new connections among researchers, local entrepreneurs, investors, and ...

AI companies’ insistence that their technology is making breakthroughs, not just aiding scientists, is making real progress ...

Now That We Can Do Anything, What Should We Do? In the world of synthetic biology—where scientists and engineers can rewire biological systems to perform remarkable new tasks, like sensing chemicals ...

The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at ...

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing. Often referred to as “molecular scissors,” CRISPR cuts DNA at specific locations that ...