The experiment has echoes of Planet of the Apes – Andy Serkis pictured as Caeser in the 2011 movieCredit: Kobal Collection – Check Copyright Holder The experiment ended up with the monkey fetuses having larger, more advanced, and more-human like… Read More ›
China recently turned on a huge nuclear fusion device patterned after the process that takes place inside the sun. The device generates ten times the heat of the sun and the scientists hope to double that within the next few… Read More ›
(Daily Star) The super-rich are already living the best lives. Now they’re trying to make those lives last forever with a wide array of weird and wonderful ideas from the fringes of science. Blood plasma: Ambrosia research benefits of ‘transfusions…. Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Pig brains have been kept alive outside their bodies for the first time as part of a controversial new experiment. The brains of hundreds of pigs survived for up to 36 hours after the animals had been decapitated, researchers revealed. The radical… Read More ›
