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The Curiosity rover recently discovered methane on Mars, which could be a sign of life. The biologist and genetics professor Gary Ruvkun wants to search for DNA on Mars.
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.
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.
Some sleep on electromagnetic mats, others pop up to 150 pills a day. But are ‘life extensionists’ any closer to finding the key to longevity?
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.
Ahead of the series finale, a science writer who has toured the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster weighs in.
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.
CNET | Jeff Bezos | Blue Origin
The Blue Origin billionaire wants to send us all into space. Humans have been dreaming about that for a long time.
