He Jiankui told scientists of his attempt to edit the CCR5 gene at a summit in 2019 S.C. Leung/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News By Michael Le Page A genetic variant that makes people resistant to…

New Zealand’s priorities are changing REX/Shutterstock By Ruby Prosser Scully New Zealand’s latest budget, unveiled this week, is being touted as the first in a Western country to put well-being over economic pressures. The country’s…

Some bees are using plastic waste to make nests Joe Dlugo / Alamy Stock Photo By Chelsea Whyte Plastic waste is just about everywhere on the planet at this point, and some animals have been…

Drosophila could help personalise cancer treatments PASCAL GOETGHELUCK/SPL By Clare Wilson Cancer is often said to be not one disease, but many. Each person’s tumour has a different set of mutations, so while a certain…

Health tech firms believe that women are a lucrative and untapped market, but are these products worth the privacy costs? Technology 29 May 2019 Apps and devices can help to monitor pregnancy Shutterstock By Donna…

This glove can work out for itself what its wearer is holding By Chelsea Whyte Ask a robot to pick up an egg or a bowling ball, and it may not know how to adjust…

Methane is a worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide Gary Greenberg/Getty By Adam Vaughan Levels of a powerful greenhouse gas jumped again last year, continuing a surge in the past few years that researchers still…

Compressed fish is currently made into food for fisheries Zhu Li / Greenpeace By Donna Lu Carbon captured from industry could be channelled into the food chain – a process that might help to reduce the…