Source As you all know, CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a gene-editing tool that can be used to modify DNA precisely and easily. The origin of this technology lies in a natural defense system that bacteria use to protect themselves from viruses. When a bacterium survives a viral infection, it stores a fragment of the attacking virus's DNA in special sequences of its own genome called CRISPR, which function as a kind of "immune system" that protects the bacteria.

Source Galaxy Zoo is a citizen science project that has been active since 2007. It allows anyone, without prior knowledge, to help astronomers in the arduous task of classifying the shape and structure of galaxies based on astronomical images. The project had been somewhat forgotten almost twenty years after its inception, but now the James Webb Telescope is generating a huge amount of new data, so the project has been reactivated.

Source Wind power, along with photovoltaic energy, are the most popular renewable energy sources. However, while solar energy offers easy-to-install options that can efficiently generate clean energy virtually anywhere, wind power is much more cumbersome and requires more space to operate efficiently. This is in addition to the alleged threat that wind turbines pose to some species of birds and bats, which are killed by the blades.

Source Just a decade ago, nuclear energy was scarier than a piranha in a bidet, but lately, due to pressure from fossil fuels and, of course, a significant improvement in technology, it seems that this type of energy production is increasingly considered cleaner and more sustainable, and nuclear reactors are beginning to proliferate.

Source Whether or not we will one day create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), there is no doubt that in some disciplines, AI models are already capable of great feats, such as the creation of new materials. Their ability to analyze large volumes of data, identify patterns, and predict the properties of new compounds greatly accelerates innovation.

Source Those of you who, like me, are Terminator fans will remember the T-1000, a more advanced version of the T-800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. A robot composed of a "mimetic polyalloy" of liquid metal that was capable of self-regeneration. This was completely science fiction when it was released in 1984, but it's not so fantastical these days.