São Paulo. Environmental lawyer fighting deforestation. We are losing. I keep going anyway.
São Paulo. Environmental lawyer fighting deforestation. We are losing. I keep going anyway.
Jun 15, 2026
A 412-page federal proposal would hand political appointees final say over every NIH and NSF research grant in America. Eighty years of peer review, gone by executive fiat. This is not a reform. It is a purge.
May 27, 2026
Two Nobel laureates lost a patent fight in March 2026, and somehow that is still good news for medicine. The CRISPR story is bigger than any one court ruling, and the law is finally starting to catch up.
May 19, 2026
On April 23, the FDA approved the first gene therapy that can restore hearing in children born deaf. Regeneron is giving it away for free. This is one of the most consequential moments in modern medicine, and it deserves far more attention than it is getting.
May 13, 2026
On April 28, 2026, the UK quietly did something it had not done in over two decades: it rewrote the legal rules governing how medicines are tested on human beings. Most people missed it. They should not have.
May 12, 2026
Science has freed more innocent people from prison than any legal reform in the last century. Now the same molecular tools reshaping medicine are forcing the law to catch up. The question is whether the law is moving fast enough.
May 5, 2026
A telescope in the Chilean desert just confirmed a 339-year-old law of physics across 750 million light-years. This is not a footnote. It is one of the most consequential scientific results of 2026.
May 1, 2026
The UK just committed £86 billion to public R&D and launched its first ever AI science strategy. Skeptics say it is just another government promise. They are wrong.
Apr 30, 2026
On April 18, scientists who literally gave blind children their sight back finally got their moment on a Hollywood stage. The story of how Luxturna went from a wild idea to the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease is one of the most important legal and scientific achievements of our era — and most people still cannot name the researchers behind it.
Apr 28, 2026
Two Nobel Prize winners just lost a major patent ruling to MIT and Harvard — again. But the story of who owns CRISPR is more clarifying than it is tragic, and the science is winning regardless.
Apr 27, 2026
Two Nobel Prize winners just lost a patent ruling to a team that published their key paper seven months later. The law said Broad Institute won. Science says something more complicated.
Apr 24, 2026
Science keeps handing the law a mirror, and the law keeps flinching. From CRISPR curing diseases once called incurable to DNA evidence freeing people who spent decades in prison, the gap between what science can do and what our legal systems allow is becoming impossible to ignore.
Apr 23, 2026
The courtroom version of forensic science and the scientific version are not the same thing. One is a discipline with error rates, human bias, and institutional pressure. The other is a TV show.