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A new technique, dubbed 'prime editing,' appears to make it even easier to make very precise changes in DNA. It's designed to overcome the limits of the CRISPR gene editing tool.

Flat characters spout banal observations about life against a lush backdrop in Ira Sachs's film, which wastes the considerable talents of its all-star cast.

Jefferson's death became the latest flash point in the national conversation about police accountability and the killing of black residents by white officers. Her funeral was held on Thursday.

Reach For The Moon, The Rat Race.

Nearly all of Sonoma County in California is under mandatory evacuation as a wildfire rages. Severe winds are creating hazardous conditions in some areas.

President-elect Alberto Fernández, backed by his running mate, former two-term president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, won a convincing victory over conservative incumbent Mauricio Macri.

More than two million acres of forest have burned in Alaska this year. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with climate change researcher Nancy Fresco about the impact these fires have on the Earth's atmosphere.

Raphael Saadiq's new album, Jimmy Lee, is his first in eight years. It was inspired by his brother's struggles with addiction and, ultimately, his death.

Many policymakers and intellectuals believed that as China opened up its economy, so would its politics. Hungarian economist János Kornai now says he made a horrible mistake.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dan Nepstad, president and founder of the Earth Innovation Institute, about the immediate and longer-term impact of fires in the Amazon.