Science of the Future
The world’s agricultural farmland is shrinking but production is up. Can this trend continue?
Throughout the 20th Century, humanity demanded more and more land leading to the loss of vast areas of natural forest ...
Will Europe squander its biotechnology opportunity?
Europe’s next wave of biotech innovation could determine how the continent feeds itself as climate disruption and supply-chain shocks intensify ...
Should we use CRISPR gene editing to remake humanity?
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it,” Stewart Brand, the free-thinking philosopher of technology, wrote in ...
A new therapy has been developed that promoters claim can remove microplastics from the body. Is it safe? Does it work?
There is mounting evidence that microplastics and “forever chemicals” are infiltrating human bodies and endangering people’s health. ... Interventions to ...
Future of food security: The downside of the digitalization of agriculture for the most vulnerable countries
With an average temperature increase of more than 1.2°C, and extreme weather events compromising 30% of global harvests, applied genetics ...
A remarkable discovery may open the door to gene editing, tripling yields of wheat and other grain crops
A groundbreaking discovery from the University of Maryland promises to revolutionize wheat cultivation and dramatically boost global food security. Researchers ...
Colade Royale: Dole’s brain-enhancing pineapple bred to taste like a piña colada arrives in grocery stores next month
For pineapple lovers, a new chapter in tropical indulgence is about to unfold. ... Consumers and food enthusiasts are buzzing with ...
Viewpoint: Indigenous groups and their Western NGO allies line up to block the genetic engineering revolution
[Members] of the International Union of Conservation of Nature, one of the world’s largest conservation groups, voted against a moratorium on the ...
Farming in poorer countries suffers from poor weather forecasting. AI is poised to change that
For farmers, every planting decision carries risks, and many of those risks are increasing with climate change. One of the ...
Australia approves commercial planting of genetically modified cotton
Australia's Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) has issued license DIR 216 to Bayer CropScience Pty. Ltd., authorizing the ...
AI chip-powered retinal implant shown to help blind victims see again
People who had lost their sight have regained the ability to read after receiving an innovative electronic eye implant paired ...
Will ‘neophobia’ kill the newly-developed gene-edited, non-browning banana
When a banana is bruised, cut, or peeled, enzymes trigger a chemical cascade that ends in melanin, the same pigment ...
Argentina and Japan far ahead of U.S. and Canada in developing gene-edited livestock
A more permissive approach to gene editing regulation in Argentina has led to greater diversity of innovation and a shift ...
ChatGPT and other generative AI suppresses brain activity. Is it slowly making us stupid?
With some MIT colleagues, [Nataliya] Kosmyna set up an experiment ... to monitor people’s brain activity while they wrote essays, ...
More than ¼ of Americans live with chronic pain. There may be a neurological ‘off button’ to block it
Arthritis. Endometriosis. Fibromyalgia. Multiple Sclerosis. Postherpetic neuralgia. Sometimes, chronic pain doesn’t even come with a diagnosis, but is the aftermath of ...
Transforming food waste into biodegradable ultra-thin plastic
In the face of the growing global crisis due to plastic pollution, a team from Monash University in Melbourne (Australia) has managed to transform food ...
Dr. Google gets an upgrade—Dr. AI is not so problematic. Here’s how to use it
Chances are high that you have used artificial intelligence to research your own medical concerns or will be tempted to ...
There may be a genetic reason why more women than men suffer from depression
Women are genetically at higher risk of clinical depression than men, Australian researchers found in a study published ... that could change how ...
Skin cells can now be used to fertilize eggs
Human eggs made from a volunteer’s skin DNA were fertilized in the lab on September 30, 2025, and some grew ...
Viewpoint: 10 reasons why we should not fear GMO fruits
[1.] Many people think genetically modified fruit is a recent invention, but the first GMO fruit hit the market in the 1990s. ...
Dystopian future? Should the wealthy be able to use AI to hardwire physical or cognitive advantages into their genomes
It is quite possible that the most immediate threat AI poses to humanity is not that its superhuman intelligence will ...
Avocado orchard of the future: ‘Creating novel types with vibrant skin colors, unique and distinctive flavors and very large sized varieties’
The future of the avocado could look very different, thanks to Westfalia Fruit’s innovative precision breeding programme in South Africa ...
A liver extracted from a genetically modified pig transplanted into a 71-year-old man
Surgeons in China have for the first time transplanted a section of liver extracted from a genetically modified pig into ...
Mutant advantages: Constant change in plant breeding — random and now guided — has precisely crafted our global food system
A new review paper by researchers at Bayer Crop Science, titled Beautiful and delicious mutants: The origins, fates, and benefits of ...
Infertility breakthrough: AI can identify the fastest swimming sperm and then a robot plants it into the embryo
In-vitro fertilization has produced more than 13 million babies since its inception in the late 1970s, but it remains a highly manual ...
Foodomics: Why you need to know what’s in ‘nutritional dark matter’
When scientists cracked the human genome in – sequencing the entire genetic code of a human being – many expected ...
Determining your ‘biological age’: Helpful information or longevity scam
You get older every day. But how old are your cells and organs, really? ... Biological age and chronological age ...
