Science
Neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal, but a new kind of living, programmable organism.
Individuals who upload their DNA test results to databases may not have much control over how it’s used.
The technique is officially called emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR).
The thoughts of animals are like the sentences of an unfamiliar language. They completely unlike the way that our language is composed from words.
An examination of sixth fingers hints at what our body—and mind—is capable of.
ABC News Australia | Chernobyl
“I wouldn’t say that another Chernobyl is not possible.” -Iryana Holovko
Rapid advances in digital technologies will ensure that misinformation arrives in unexpected formats and with varying levels of sophistication.
If human-animal hybrids become more like us than non-human animals, it could then be argued that it’s unethical to produce a hybrid simply for the purposes of extracting its organs.
The Hollywood Reporter | Immortality
By undergoing the latest in genetic & medical testing, the film & TV producer hopes to cheat death or dementia indefinitely.
A new report claims that jailed billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was working on turning himself into a transhuman superman.
By comparing plants with organisms with mental processes that look like our own, have we made it impossible to recognize a consciousness different to ours?
The research could eventually lead to new sources of organs for transplant, but ethical and technical hurdles need to be overcome.
Study funded by Facebook aims to improve communication with paralyzed patients.
Kurt Pilgeram of Dutton, Mont. is in a legal battle with Alcor Life Extension Foundation of Scottsdale, Ariz. He claims the company mishandled the remains of his father.
“If we are living in a simulation, then the cosmos that we are observing is just a tiny piece of the totality of physical existence.”
In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.
Researchers have ideas how to probe consciousness.
The goal is to develop scalable quantum repeaters for long-haul quantum communications and distributed quantum computers for large-scale quantum computation.
New innovations in neurotechnology should consider ethical, social and legal implications.
A new law formalizes restrictions on the collection and use of people’s genetic data.
Study of almost half a million people links mutation that protects against HIV infection to an earlier death.
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun – and prevent a collision with Jupiter. The scenario may one day come true.
