Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey
For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells.
For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells.
Despite a team of World Health Organization (WHO) investigators ruling that it was “extremely unlikely” that the coronavirus was accidentally released from a research lab in China, the idea continues to persist.
Boston Dynamics’s robot dog has generally been used for corporate applications, such as surveying a Ford Motor Co. factory or working on a BP plc oil rig. Now it appears “Spot” is one step close to becoming a killer robot as it trains with the French Army.
The two companies will work with General Atomics to design an agile rocket for cislunar missions.
The technologically flashybut otherwise disappointing demo — neuroscientists first developed and demonstrated mind-control tech in primates decades ago — represented Neuralink’s growing prominence in the public sphere, and raised important questions about privacy, data ownership, and biomedical ethics.
Inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy come to light.
International scientists from around the world are warning that chemical pollutants in the environment have the potential to alter animal and human behavior.
The global rate of plastic production is projected to double, if not triple, over the next few decades. Researchers warn that this could mean more plastic waste polluting the environment, as well as more chemicals from minuscule and broken-down plastic debris – better known as microplastics – migrating into food.
Origin Protocol is a blockchain platform used to build decentralized marketplaces, enabling the creation of peer-to-peer marketplaces on the Ethereum network and IPFS.
The government agency reported $73.1 billion in revenue from postage and other services in the 2020 fiscal year.
The 2022 iPhone lineup will feature substantial changes to the camera system, according to analyst Ming-chi Kuo in an investor note reported on by MacRumors and AppleInsider. Kuo says the high-end iPhones — presumably the Pro range — will use a larger 48-megapixel sensor for the primary camera. Separately, the analyst suggests that 2023 iPhones may start to use Face ID sensors under the screen as a way to get rid of the notch.
Bitcoin as a climate change accelerant has become a popular meme over the last year, with countless articles written about its energy-hungry nature of mining derailing goals. While some see a crisis, others see an opportunity to use North America’s abundance of hydroelectric power — some of it orphaned in abandoned industry towns — as a way to match hashrates with cheap, green energy.
Over the past decade, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized genetic engineering, allowing scientists to make targeted changes to organisms’ DNA. While the system could potentially be useful in treating a variety of diseases, CRISPR-Cas9 editing involves cutting DNA strands, leading to permanent changes to the cell’s genetic material.
A hidden world of mutated rats, cows, guinea pigs, and sheep is only the entryway into a bizarre future few are prepared for.
NASA has released a new image of Mars’ blue dunes and it looks more like an alien planet from Mass Effect than one from our very own solar system.Despite the image being new to our eyes, it’s actually quite an old photo. The image below was made using multiple photos captured by NASA’s longest-working Mars spacecraft, the Mars Odyssey orbiter, in between December 2002 and November 2004.
If you order a pizza from Domino’s in Houston, a robot might drop off your dinner. The company will this week start making autonomous deliveries with the help of Nuro’s R2 robot, almost two years after it announced the project.
Brain-computer interface technology is advancing rapidly, but it currently relies on wires that seriously limit its use in everyday applications. That could soon change, though, as researchers recently completed the first human trial of a high-bandwidth wireless neural interface.
An Israel-based study looked at 400 Pfizer vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated and found the South African variant more prevalent in those who had received the vaccine.