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US scientists who deciphered dolphin whistles win prize for animal communication

15 May at 19:41 PM, via The Guardian

The Coller-Dolittle Prize was won by a US team that has been studying dolphins off the coast of Florida for more than four decades

A $100,000 prize for communicating with animals has been scooped by researchers who have shed light on the meaning of dolphins’ whistles.

The Coller-Dolittle Prize for Two-way Inter-species Communication was launched last year by the Jeremy Coller Foundation and Tel...

US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first

15 May at 19:05 PM, via The Guardian

Gene-editing breakthrough has potential to treat array of devastating genetic diseases soon after birth, scientists say

Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy.

International researchers have hailed the feat as a medical...

You might live to be 100. Are you ready? | Andrew J Scott

15 May at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

A demographic change is unfolding, and many of us can expect a long life. It’s time to provide the support needed

Ethel Caterham, at the age of 115 years, is said to be the oldest person alive. She offers the sage life advice to “say yes to every opportunity because you never know what it will lead to. Have a positive mental attitude and have everything in moderation.” When she was born in...

My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed

15 May at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

I was told my husband would never talk again, while physiotherapy was dismissed entirely. My son was failed in similar ways, but for the brilliance of some medical staff who refuse to believe a stroke is the end

On the night before the accident, John and I and our son Jay, who was then 26, lingered in the garden drinking wine and enjoying the mid-summer scent of jasmine and lilies. We talked...

At LAX, Uber Drivers Wait. And Wait. And Wait.

14 May at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

One of the busiest airports in the world used to be a prime place for gig drivers to earn money. Now, it’s typical of their increasing desperation.

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