Certain discoveries are heralded with much hoopla. Others slip into medical journals discreetly, only to resound louder with time. Small hands, a quiet chamber, and a race against biology itself were the starting points of the Toronto CRISPR therapy narrative. KJ Muldoon, the baby, was born with CPS1 deficiency, a fatal genetic disorder that stops the body from breaking down ammonia. If left untreated, ammonia accumulates quickly, overwhelming the body’s organs and harming the brain. Only crisis management is provided by standard care. Transplants are dangerous. Most affected infants don’t make it past their second birthday. But this time, something…
Author: Eric Evani
A novel kind of patrol now flies over the Rio Grande, where jagged rock shadows move softly after dark. This patrol is unmanned, never blinks, and is quite successful. The U.S. Border Patrol has put in place a set of AI-driven and drone-based systems that can find and stop unauthorized airborne invasions. These gadgets are quietly changing how officers work in areas that have been good for smugglers for a long time. What started out as a haphazard response to a new type of cartel surveillance has turned into a much better detection network. Agents now use hand-launched drones that…
Now, the Elizabeth line—measured, reliable, and surprisingly vital—pulses through London like a second heartbeat. Crossrail has finally fulfilled its promises of quicker travel times, easier transitions, and noticeably better connection after years of public scrutiny, fluctuating dates, and constant financial recalibrations. It was simple to forget throughout the launch delays that this railway was about more than just speed; it was about bringing together locations that, although geographically close, frequently felt emotionally far. From the bustle of Heathrow to the commuting buzz of Shenfield, it now requires fewer transfers, fewer assumptions, and much less time to navigate a once fragmented…
For more than a century, Boston’s marathon has tested speed, resilience, and strategy—but starting now, it’s also becoming a showcase for inclusion shaped by precision and purpose. Beginning with the 2024 season and expanding through 2026, the Boston Marathon is undertaking quietly substantial alterations that will place Para athletes and wheelchair racers at the center of its competitive system, not merely at its periphery. The adjustments are substantial and exceptionally ingenious. Seven fully recognized Para Athletics Divisions will now form the competition, rising from five previous year. For the first time, athletes with intellectual impairments (T20) and coordination impairments (T35-T38)…
Canada has secretly picked Halifax as the site for its national commercial space exploration hub—one founded not on bureaucratic centrality, but on proximity, research vigor, and raw potential. Even while the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters are still in Longueuil, Quebec, the country’s industrial lift-off is now clearly headed east. Halifax is getting ready to move on now that the Atlantic wind has passed. This confidence is mostly due to timing and infrastructure coming together. About 200 kilometers outside the city, near the hamlet of Canso, Spaceport Nova Scotia is swiftly transforming into the country’s first commercial orbital launch complex. It’s…
Some changes reveal themselves with pomp. Others arrive like a quiet invitation on a noticeboard. The National Trust’s decision to open its doors for free to anyone under 25 fits into the latter category—quiet, but substantial. At first glance, it may seem like a simple gesture: a handful of free admittance days, dispersed over the year, targeted at young people who may never have stepped through the gate of a stately mansion. But for many under 25s who’ve grown up seeing National Trust buildings as costly or culturally remote, it signifies something markedly improved—a move from exclusion to inclusion, from…
One late afternoon at a park shaded by sycamore trees, a few dozen New Yorkers were winding down the day. Teenagers looked on their phones, parents watched children dart across the grass, and the typical bustle of city life momentarily stopped. Then there were gunshots. Sharp, abrupt, initially incomprehensible. The shooter had traveled across the nation from Nevada with a lawfully acquired, military-style rifle—one that was already outlawed under New York law but somehow ended up on a park bench in a calm neighborhood. AttributeDetailsLocationNew York StateLegislative ResponseNew gun safety laws enacted after a deadly park shootingGovernorKathy HochulWeapon UsedMilitary-grade semiautomatic…
For decades, clinicians reiterated a medical certainty: the human heart doesn’t regenerate. A cardiac attack leaves scars. Damage persists. Furthermore, cardiac muscle does not regenerate like the liver or skin. It contracts faithfully until it can’t—then it fails. That idea affected every clinical decision from the 1970s until present. But inside a quiet Harvard lab, that narrative is changing—steadily, methodically, and quite wonderfully. At the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, researchers working on the Cardiovascular Disease Program have taken a remarkable stride forward. Using stem cells pushed into maturity, they’ve achieved regeneration of working heart tissue on lab-grown cardiac strips. These…
Film frames that appeared to be gone forever have been slowly brought back to life by specialists bending over luminous monitors inside a temperature-controlled repository in London in recent years. The British Film Institute’s restoration of a 1920s silent masterpiece is not striking in look, but it is incredibly effective in retaining cultural memory. The work begins with fragments. Some reels arrive bent and fragile, their edges eroding from decades of chemical degradation. Others surface in unexpected places, misfiled or discreetly held in European archives. The BFI has greatly decreased the risk of irreversible loss by working with partner organizations…
The whirr of skateboard wheels striking pavement is a sound that marked my summers here long before any championship made headlines. The sound of tricks off the ramps in Downtown Skateboard Plaza, even on rainy days when others seek cover, and the crack-and-roll of boards in China Creek on weekend mornings are all examples of this rhythm. Now Vancouver is preparing to host something larger: the World Skateboarding Tour Street World Championship this summer. After editions in Tokyo and the late‑2025 Rockstar Energy Open at Waterfront Park, the city’s skateboard parks—particularly the covered Downtown Skateboard Plaza—will be turned into the…