North Korea has been aggressively advancing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in recent years, overhauling its legal and institutional frameworks and fostering specialized AI education. Despite these efforts, it’s unclear how well
Traumatic injuries to the central nervous system (CNS), including traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI), remain a major medical challenge due to oxidative damage and neuroinflammation. Current treatments are
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A team led by Prof. Mao Jirong from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside international collaborators, has provided compelling evidence of standing shocks in low-angular-momentum black hole accretion
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Scientists are making striking progress in applying gene-editing technology to one of medicine’s toughest frontiers: the human brain. According to a recent report in Nature, breakthroughs in mice suggest that CRISPR-based tools
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Indigenous scholars from settler-colonial countries including Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, Australia, and the United States have called for a fundamental shift in how scientific institutions engage with Indigenous peoples and knowledge. Writing
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Texas-based biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has announced the creation of three gene-edited animals that it claims are the world’s first “de-extinct” creatures. The announcement, made in April and reported by Nature, has
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In a landmark discovery that reshapes our understanding of life in Earth’s most extreme environments, a team of international scientists has documented flourishing chemosynthesis-based ecosystems at record-breaking ocean depths. This comprehensive study,
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Researchers have found that merely seeing someone who appears sick can activate the body’s immune system, as if preparing for infection. The study, published on July 28 in Nature Neuroscience, reveals how
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Chinese military researchers have announced a radical new rail gun design that could dramatically boost the destructive power of electromagnetic weapons, potentially redefining future warfare. Dubbed the “X-rail gun,” the experimental system
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A breakthrough in artificial taste sensing may offer a lifeline to people who have lost their sense of taste due to neurological conditions. Researchers have developed a graphene-based device that, with the
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Issued today, 8 July 2025, by the Hinrich Foundation in Singapore, Stewart Paterson’s incisive report “Will Industrial Policy Restore American Manufacturing Leadership?” interrogates the ambitious, multifaceted campaign by the United States to
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