Here come the gene hackers

Interventions to make heritable changes to the human genome are fraught with uncertainties. There are legitimate concerns about using a still …

Three-body problem needs real, and not artificial solution

The equation that has confounded mathematicians for over 300 years needs an elegant and beautiful solution, not something where the end is there …

What the dog saw

Noel Fitzpatrick, the celebrity vet behind the Channel 4 show The Supervet, recounts his often-surprising journey in a memoir that celebrates the …

Technology trail to the gene grail

First detected in the late 1980s, the potential of CRISPR-Cas9 became evident in mid-2012. The technology’s promise in curing chronic and …

Breaking the mould

Mathematics has always been considered as a young person’s game. And to win one of the top award in the field at 76 is a greater …

Facebook's wild and severe side effects

Facebook is undermining democracies and leading to shallow and degraded public discourse

Leaving the poor aside

Germany's persistence in not agreeing with the idea of selling IMF gold reserves provided a convenient excuse for the G-7 to ignore the debt …

Quaking mountains

The Himalayas are seismically an active mountain belt and require long-term planning of townships and other long-term measures to mitigate disasters