Their efforts will make it much easier to breed new varieties of the world’s most important crop.
A big question
Micropigs? Dinosaur chickens? Tweeting dogs?
This year saw several advancements across medicine, space technology, and AI that extend our knowledge in consequential ways.
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Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?
“This is the closest to midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been in the lifetime of almost everyone in this room.”
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A newly discovered giant virus turns its victims to “stone.”