Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Artificially-intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Self-driving cars. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening at exponential speed. Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from animal power, made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. This Fourth […]
Our thoughts and fears, movements and sensations all arise from the electrical blips of billions of neurons in our brain. Streams of electricity flow through neural circuits to govern these actions of the brain and body, and some scientists think that many neurological and psychiatric disorders may result […]
A five foot long giant lizard that roamed Earth nearly 300 million years has been brought back from the dead – in the form of a robot. It predates dinosaurs, reptiles, bird and mammals and was brought back to life using digital scans and a robot based on an […]
Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, and yes, it’s as weird as it […]
China is building a particle accelerator that will be twice as large and seven times as powerful as CERN’s LHC and astrophysicist, Martin Rees, famous for his contributions to black hole formation to extragalactic radio sources and the evolution of the universe, thinks that there’s a chance the […]
Artificial human reproduction appears to be on the horizon with Japanese scientists’ claim to have created immature human eggs from stem cells, but the technique could result in power that would cross the bounds of ethics and serve as a “profound violation” of marriage and marital love, a […]
We’re used to read about brain-to-brain communication in comic books or Science Fiction stories but it seems that we’re getting closer to actually making it a part of our lives in the future. Andrea Stocco and his colleagues from the University of Washington in Seattle have been working on […]
LARGE Hadron Collider scientists have uncovered an IMPOSSIBLE anomaly in reality so momentous it threatens to undermine physics itself. The revelation has been spotted in the mind-blowing sub-atomic world where particles are mere wisps of existence and only survive for microseconds – but the new science could see […]
Health is a very complex thing, and that is because the body, we, are complex forms of life. For any particular medical problem, there are innumerable ways to treat it, and research can go in any direction to figure out how a treatment works. The realest, most intensive way […]
A January 2018 National Geographic article runs a bold headline: THE SCIENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL. The lead sentence carries considerable freight: “Researchers have found that the way our brains are wired can affect how much empathy we feel toward others—a key measuring stick of good and evil.” […]
