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For half a century, researchers have pondered how gene drives found in nature could be repurposed to combat mosquito-borne illnesses. In 1960, the biologists George Craig, William Hickey, and Robert Vandehey proposed fighting illnesses carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito…
Here we go again. Friday, June 1, is the official start of hurricane season in the Atlantic. It’s already begun, though; Tropical Storm Alberto showed up earlier this week, bringing deadly flooding and mudslides to the Florida Panhandle and the…
When Nisha* landed a job as a part-time spinning instructor at a major franchise, she was excited to earn some extra cash. She grew to love the community at her studio and the camaraderie with her colleagues. But there was…
The economy is finally in pretty good shape again after a financial crisis sent the world spiraling into what people feared might become a global depression. Ten years later, Republicans are in power in Washington and are working, with a…
Older workers are accusing Facebook, Ikea, and hundreds of other companies for discriminating against job seekers in their 50s and 60s through targeted job ads posted on Facebook. The Communications Workers of America, a labor union representing 700,000 media workers…
In 2016, Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman who was drunk and unconscious — a sentence widely considered so outrageous that it led to weeks of national furor. And Turner ended up…
