Two scientists are sharing the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the tools to edit DNA, the molecular basis of all life on Earth, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday. Emmanuelle Charpentier, professor at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in...

New York-based Delta Children, which makes cribs in China for retailers such as Walmart, briefly studied moving production to the United States as supply shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic added to its hefty bill from US import tariffs. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross predicted in...

Clashes in the Syrian Desert between pro-government forces and holdouts of the Daesh group have killed at least 90 combatants this month, a war monitor said Wednesday. Russian aircraft carried out strikes in support of their Syrian regime ally, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....

“Many relatives of mine were living in camps near the border with Turkey,” says Huda Husein, a 25-year-old teacher living in the rebel-held enclave of Idlib in north west Syria, “but last month they returned home [to the cities and villages] because they prefer dying under an airstrike to...