Oxytocin, often lauded as the “hug hormone,” might not be necessary to induce affection.
Ranchers are waiting for hundreds of millions of sterile flies to be produced, or for a technological breakthrough.
Emerging technologies are enabling more invasive management practices.
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.
The nation wants to eradicate all invasive mammal predators by 2050. Gene-editing technology could help—or it could trigger an ecological disaster of global proportions.
Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?