From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.
Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...
From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.
Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...
Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...
The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...
Avi Loeb has suggested that humans themselves may be 'intelligent, self-replicating and self-repairing autonomous probes' built by an advanced alien civilisation, arguing in a new essay published ...
A lot of money and engineering time has been invested in transporting humans to the red planet, including more than $15 billion on Starship development. Musk envisions a flotilla of several thousand ...
In 2019, entrepreneur Bryan Johnson began to experiment on himself by taking daily injections of rapamycin. This immunosuppressant drug is typically used to prevent organ rejection after transplants, ...
Taken from above, this annotated image shows a school ground in Spain and the motions of teenage participants as indicated by the dots and lines. Credit: 2026 Echeverría-Huarte et al. Put a small ...
12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...
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