At BP, we've reset our strategy to grow value for shareholders, growing upstream, focusing downstream, playing to our strengths, and disciplined investment in the transition.

This is a reset BP. Find out more at BP.com forward slash reset. Transition activities such as EV charging, bioenergy and renewables are a much smaller but key part of our business.

The Economist Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm Jason Palmer.

And I'm Rosie Bloor.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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it is. We look past the cultural reasons for the love affair seeking the hard-nosed economic ones.

And you may think of New Zealand as a blissful Middle Earth awash with natural wonders.

But some New Zealanders are actually getting a bit sick of the country,

and the number of emigrants is rising.

Our correspondent finds out why.

Thank you. our correspondent finds out why. But first...

Genes are the building blocks for all living things.

By altering genetic code, you change an organism.

For decades, scientists have been trying to do just that.

But the techniques were often slow, expensive or imprecise.

Thirteen years ago, Jennifer Dowdna and Emmanuel Charpentier found a way to borrow a form of molecular scissors from bacterial DNA.

These scissors allowed the scientists to cut out or paste in sections of DNA.

It meant they could change genes in highly specific and repeatable ways.

It was a huge step.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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