Leo Wilson 
“This is a terrible disease,” says Samarth Kulkarni, president and CEO of Crispr Therapeutics. “Every day feels like a big burden. Patients have this constant specter of mortality hanging over them.” The culprit is abnormal hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen through the body. The problem arises from a mutation in the HBB gene. Everyone … Read more
Angola’s announcement on Thursday that it will quit the oil producers’ Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) brings to a head longstanding tensions within the powerful group, but market impact is likely to be limited, according to analysts. The move “did not come as a surprise, [as] the writing was on the wall already … Read more
(NewsNation) — Astronaut Kellie Gerardi was recently part of Virgin Galactic’s 10th spaceflight — and now she’s on another mission to show her daughter, and others in her generation, that space is accessible to them, too. Speaking to NewsNation’s Markie Martin on “Morning in America” Tuesday, Gerardi said the experience was a “lifelong dream” for … Read more
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free There’s no denying that making a film is difficult. Not only does getting a story from script to screen cost millions (at least, those with well-known actors do), but it … Read more
A lot has changed in the world since the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted 50 years ago in December 1973. Two researchers at The Ohio State University were among a group of experts invited by the journal Science to discuss how the ESA has evolved and what its future might hold. Tanya Berger-Wolf, faculty … Read more
China’s air pollution worsened in 2023, the first time it has done so in a decade, a study released on Friday said. “2023 is the first year that China’s national average PM2.5 level has increased year-on-year since the beginning of China’s ‘war on pollution’ in 2013,” a study by independent research organization the Centre for … Read more
From empty glasses of sherry on the mantelpiece to sooty footprints leading to the bedroom door, evidence of Santa’s existence is clearly irrefutable. Yet most children will begin to question it at some point – and many parents anticipate this moment with dread. Now psychologists have identified the average age when Santa scepticism creeps in, … Read more
The destination for this yet-untargeted bounty? Livestock feed, says Payne. This exploitation of the mesopelagic required a huge harvesting effort in the southwest Indian Ocean and southern Atlantic, including employing boats with helicopters and fish-processing facilities to support a fleet of smaller fishing vessels. After the Soviet Union collapsed—along with its fisheries subsidies—momentum in the … Read more
Bloomberg/Contributor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Australia’s Santos jumped to a five-week high on Friday on news the company is in talks to merge with Woodside Energy. Santos and Woodside Energy, two of Australia’s largest oil and gas producers, have opened talks to discuss a potential merger in what could create an 80 … Read more
(NewsNation) — One of the brightest stars in the night sky will disappear from view temporarily on Dec. 12 as an asteroid passes in front of it, causing a rare eclipse. Part of the Orion constellation, Betelgeuse is a red supergiant 700 light-years from Earth. The 10 million-year-old star is one of the brightest in … Read more
