When Dr. He Jiankui announced the birth of CRISPR-edited babies last month, the world grappled with how to handle the aftermath. Should journals overlook his dangerous ethical violations and publish the results? Will he now be barred from conducting clinical trials or obtaining funding? What level of punishment is appropriate for what he did—with absolutely no remorse? China’s answer: extensive, life-consuming penalties that extend far past any scientific career.

Rocketry is the forte of Dr K. Sivan, Chairman, ISRO, but this expertise has evidently rubbed off on his style of functioning as he drives his colleagues to launch three Indians into space eight months ahead of the schedule of August 2022 announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has knit up many teams to accomplish this high profile mission, (Gaganyaan), and one of these teams, has been working till the early hours every day to complete a review of the design of the crew module and systems...

Amazon Alexa is in almost everything from microwaves to wall clocks, and the latest addition to that list is a bike. The bike you can see above is part of a new range of cycling products coming later in 2019 called the Cybic Legend. There's also an electric bike in development called the Cybic E-Legend and both have been announced ahead of being shown at CES 2019.

Would you prefer to be cremated or buried in a casket? Washington might give residents an additional option if it becomes the first US state to legalize an unusual end-of-life practice -- composting human remains. "Recomposting" -- which advertises as more environmentally friendly than traditional funeral practices -- is a process where a human body is quickly decomposed using heat-loving microbes and beneficial bacteria.

There is a perfectly wonderful map on a playful Facebook cartography page. It shows all of the countries in the world, with a two-color key underneath. Red indicates “countries with moon on the flag.” There are thirteen of them. Blue indicates “countries with flag on the moon.” There is only one: the United States.

Internet retailer Overstock has announced that it intends to become the very first major US-based company to pay a part of its state business tax in Ohio Internet retailer Overstock has announced that it intends to become the very first major US-based company to pay a part of its state business tax in Ohio using Bitcoin. 

Only a few months ago, Apple was crowned the first company to be valued at more than $1 trillion. Now, in the wake of a surprise profit warning, its entire future is being questioned. Both reactions are extreme. A victory lap wasn’t warranted last summer, nor is a eulogy now. The company is at an inflection point. Apple, like others before it, is attempting to navigate the shift. It’s fair to wonder if it can; it’s premature to conclude that it can’t.

The US may have entered a “post-truth” era, but Australia has not. Researchers who asked people in the US their views on politicians who frequently bend the truth found that fact-checking had little impact, whereas for Australians it did change their political opinions. The findings in Australia are positive and encouraging, says team member Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Bristol in the UK. They suggest fact-checking is a genuine counter to politicians who regularly make false stat...

More than 6 percent of the new Congress is Jewish, with 34 Jews among the total of 535 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, so Congress as a whole is more than thrice as Jewish as the country in general, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center on religion in the new Congress, which was inaugurated Thursday.

With the news of the new Sonic movie everyone’s worried whether it will work, given Hollywood’s track record of making our beloved games into movies. They never seem to get it quite right even though there have been loads from Super Mario Bros. to Silent Hill, Street Fighter, and more. It seems no matter what they turn their hands to the movie is flop, for example Max Payne could have easily worked if just followed the game.

It is known as the “fly’s eye Dante”: an 1878 edition of the Divine Comedy which is so small – just 11/4 by 13/4 inches – that it is said to have taken 11 years to print, and to have damaged the eyes of both its compositor and corrector. Bound in red leather embossed with gold, the world’s smallest edition of Dante’s classic poem, which was printed by the Salmin Brothers in Padua, is one of almost 50 officially designated miniature books housed in the London Library.

BTC price is currently sitting at yearly lows though it is still around 400 percent higher than 2017's low. In fact, a historic look at yearly lows A historic look at Bitcoin's yearly lows reveals the massive BTC price gains and how 'hodlers' with longer time preference are created. 

Tim Cook is reportedly hosting an all-hands meeting with every Apple employee today about the revelations regarding stalling iPhone sales. The news caused Apple shares to plummet in after-hours trading, taking some Apple suppliers with it. As part of the meeting, Cook will spell out what the news means, and take questions from employees. Cook’s revelation about the fact that the latest iPhones aren’t selling to expectations — particularly in China — caused the company to revise its earni...

Netflix doesn’t seem to be slowing down with its Horror projects. The streaming service/network is all set to start production on its upcoming series Locke & Key. The series is an adaptation of IDW’s horror/fantasy drama comic by Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. According to a previous production listing report from Production Weekly, Locke & Key will begin filming on February 4. Production will take place in Toronto for a period of 4 months and is set to wrap on June 19. In mo...

Tonight – January 2, 2019, according to clocks in the Americas – we reach Earth’s closest point to the sun for this entire year. That closest point comes at 11:20 p.m. CST (central U.S.) on January 2. It’ll be the morning of January 3 for Europe and Africa … later in the day January 3 for the rest of the world (January 3 at 05:20 UTC; translate to your time zone). Astronomers call this special point in our orbit perihelion, from the Greek roots peri meaning near and helios meaning sun.

A Danish bank has released a list of predicted events that could completely change the world as we know it in 2019. Expert analysts at Saxo Bank compiled an ‘Outrageous Predictions’ list detailing how the series of highly unlikely events could affect global finances. Among its cheery predictions for this year is Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn causing the collapse of the pound after becoming Prime Minister, Netflix stock crashing and a solar storm that will take out satellites across the entire ...

Let’s get this out of the way: “True Detective” Season 3 is good. Whether or not you believe the first season to be an untouchable classic or an overrated but well-acted cop show, Nic Pizzolatto’s new episodes are a big step up from a second season as muddled and meaningless as that water stain above Vince Vaughn’s bed. With strong performances all-around — and a flat-out remarkable turn from Mahershala Ali — HBO’s third season benefits from reliable genre elements, a compelling ...

It became clear that Valve was going to have a hard time selling Artifact when fans were left disgruntled (to say the least) by the Dota card game’s reveal at The International 2017. Similar to Blizzard’s Diablo Immortal blunder at Blizzcon a couple months ago, Valve’s decision to try and monetize a $19.99 card game and ignore the demand to create sequels to their best-selling franchises Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and Portal isn’t paying off for the popular publisher.

Global stock markets fell on the first trading day of 2019 on deepening fears of a slowdown in the Chinese economy, extending a turbulent period for equities. The Stoxx Europe 600 was down 1% in Wednesday midmorning trade. France’s CAC 40 lost 1.8% and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 fell 1%. U.S. stock futures pointed to opening falls of 1.4% and 1.5% for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, respectively.

Dark matter, it seems, has been clinging to galaxies for a very long time. Most galaxies that existed 10 billion years ago had about as much dark matter as galaxies do today, contradicting earlier studies that suggested less dark matter lurked around galaxies in the early universe.