On day one of South by Southwest 2024, Ben Lamm – CEO and founder of Colossal Biosciences, aka the company that wants to bring the woolly mammoth back to life – joined actor and filmmaker Seth Green to discuss progress in using biotech to both preserve endangered species and reintroduce extinct species into the environment.

Between this weekend’s big horror release, Imaginary, and the upcoming, more family-friendly IF, it seems like imaginary friends are everywhere – even at South by Southwest.

At 18-weeks pregnant, Amanda Zurawski developed a condition called cervical insufficiency and was told the baby she “desperately wanted” would not survive birth. But since the baby’s heart was still beating, Texas laws banned Zurawski from getting an abortion.

First, be informed that CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the tenets of a bacterial defense system that forms the basis for the tech. Then, recall that the scientists who developed CRISPR won a Nobel Prize in chemistry, and the tech’s already been used to create life-saving therapeutics.

Oakland, Scranton, and Tulsa wouldn’t appear to have much in common. Geographic differences aside, their growth and housing trends aren’t all that alike: Oakland’s population is getting a little smaller with high housing costs, Scranton is growing some as housing costs are some of the lowest nationwide, and Tulsa is growing fast.

With Super Tuesday behind us, political campaigns around the country will be focusing their attention on the November general election. But as candidates for elected office and their campaigns focus on November, the amount of disinformation spreading online about those candidates and their campaigns could also surge.

SXSW has a strong track record of announcing extremely bold-faced names on the eve of its conference. While today’s announcement isn’t quite the “POTUS & FLOTUS are coming!" double whammy of 2016, it’s still somebody famous enough to get by on first-name alone: Meghan.

South by Southwest 2024's Film & TV Festival schedule is packed with big releases like The Fall Guy and Road House, but now it's added the world premiere of one of the year's most eagerly anticipated directorial debuts: Monkey Man, the first film from Dev Patel.

When South by Southwest says it covers all media, it’s not kidding, as reconfirmed by this morning’s announcement that podcast publisher iHeartMedia will be bringing the iHeartPodcast Awards to the festival in 2024 for its first live event in three years.