News

  1. Health & Medicine

    A newly approved drug could be a boon for treating malaria

    Tafenoquine could help prevent the recurring form of malaria, but the drug may also be dangerous for people who have a certain genetic mutation.

    By Leah Rosenbaum
  2. Astronomy

    New Horizons may have seen a glow at the solar system’s edge

    New Horizons may have seen a hydrogen wall just past the edge of the solar system, where the solar wind meets the stuff of interstellar space.

    By Lisa Grossman
  3. Genetics

    Researchers say CRISPR edits to a human embryo worked. But critics still doubt it

    Researchers say that they have confirmed CRISPR/Cas9 edits of a heart disease–causing version of a gene, but critics still have doubts.