The five pairs of parents all have mutations in their GJB2 gene which guarantees their child will be born deaf. Russia’s Denis Rebrikov hopes to be the next scientist, after China’s He Jiankui, to use CRISPR technology to edit an embryo before birth. His plan is to edit one copy of the gene so that the […]
The city, named Kemune, was in the center of the Mittani Kingdom. It was exposed when the Mosul Dam reservoir dried up because of a drought. The Mittani Kingdom flourished between 1500-1300 B.C. The remains had 22-foot high walls and interior chambers decorated with murals. In ancient times it would have been close to the Tigris River. […]
The team, comprised of scientists from Temple University and the Nebraska Medical Center, were able to destroy the virus in living mice using CRISPR in addition to . CRISPR is the new process which allows scientists to edit the DNA of living organisms. It gained publicity when it was used by a Chinese scientist to modify the […]
La Ciudad Blanca, or White City, is a legendary city said to exist in the rainforests of eastern Honduras. Also known as the Lost City of the Monkey God, it has been searched for by explorers since the time Hernan Cortes came to the Americas. It’s location was determined (although this is under dispute) using […]
The giant squid lives in the deep-ocean and females can grow up to an estimated 43 feet. They’ve been referenced throughout history and are the inspiration for the norse legend the kraken. Like all creatures who inhabit the deepest of the planet’s waters, access to the giant squid is limited and therefore little in known about […]
Niassa Park, in Mozambique, is one of Africa’s largest wildlife preserves. The last time an elephant was lost to poaching was in May 2018. They implemented a rapid-response police force and have increased their patrolling and response by air. The preserve has benefited from the desire of Mozambique’s president to see poaching reduced. The rapid-response police […]
Did you know a a massive race riot occurred in Los Angeles almost thirty years before the Rodney King riots? The Watts riots were named after the Watts neighborhood in LA, near Compton. Longstanding racial injustices and a history of police brutality against both black and Mexican citizens left an underlying tension which came to a […]
Not only it’s brain, but it’s tongue, ears, fangs, and hair! The preservation of soft tissues of any specimen is a rare find and this discovery will provide mountains of data for scientists to analyze. The head was found in the Siberian permafrost in 2018 and is from a now-extinct subspecies of wolf which was ~25% larger […]
Django Reinhardt was born into a Belgian Romani family in 1910. He grew up in Romani camps around Paris and learned a wide range of stringed instruments, eventually settling on the banjo-guitar as his preferred instrument. He practiced by mimicking older musicians, never learning to read music. His trajectory as a musician was almost derailed […]
The International Space Station (ISS) sits, on average, 400km/250 miles in orbit above the Earth. The first private astronauts could visit as soon as 2020. NASA has limited the numebr of visitors to two per year. Whoever is willing to make the trip can stay up to thirty days on board and are required to reimburse NASA’s cost […]
