European Union negotiators reached a deal on new rules that pave the way for gene editing, a technique that will help farmers produce healthier animals and crops as they adjust to climate change.

On the sunbaked fields of Southern Spain, a new kind of maize is growing. It looks like any other crop - but inside, it holds technology that could transform the future of agriculture. Changing ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...

Google has introduced a new Create tab for Photos. Create hosts editing tools that let you get creative with photos. The tab is available for Android and iOS versions of the app. Get more in-depth ...

As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Levin started sketching out ideas for how to do something no chemist had ever managed before: swapping one of the carbon atoms in ...

Astrophotography isn’t easy. Even with good equipment, simply snapping a picture of the night sky won’t produce anything particularly impressive. You’ll likely just get a black void with a few ...

About three in five college students experienced some level of basic needs insecurity during the 2024 calendar year, according to survey data from Trellis Strategies. Over half (58 percent) of ...

Instagram has finally released its highly anticipated video editing app on Android and iOS. The Edits app offers a host of useful tools that let you capture, edit, and export videos in one place. It ...