Noland Arbaugh was the first person to receive a Neuralink brain implantJohn Francis Peters Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) company Neuralink grabbed headlines this year with the announcement of its first human trial in January, followed by its second in...
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the smell of freshly baked gingerbread wafting through the house. With a blend of warming spices and rich molasses, it is a must-have treat for a winter’s day. And as a child, it was always...
Robert Montgomery with a gene-edited pig kidney in the operating room during a xenotransplantationJoe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health On 16 March, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney. Less than one month later, Lisa...
Researchers collecting a sediment core sample from Crawford Lake, CanadaBonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the...
From a fish with a tiny brain to the world’s oldest cheese, we have reported on plenty of strange and unusual science discoveries this year. Challenge yourself and see what you can remember in this fiendish set of questions from...
We challenge you to find the scientific terms in this monster of a puzzle – and we’re not even telling you exactly what they are Source link...
Quantum hardware is advancing fast. Can quantum software keep up?Bartlomiej Wroblewski/Getty Images A quantum computing start-up is developing its own operating system to run quantum machines, akin to Microsoft Windows or macOS on a standard computer. The hardware for quantum...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJYNn_8AA8Q Lucy, the fossil hominin who lived around 3.2 million years ago, would have been no match for modern humans in a running race. Even an average member of our species would have left her for dead in a 100-metre...
This thin wafer of diamond is also very flexibleNature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08218-x A new way to make ultra-thin diamond wafers using sticky tape could help produce diamond-based electronics, which might one day be a useful alternative to silicon-based designs. Diamond has...
The sand-grain-sized robots work cooperatively, similar to antsJeong Jae Wie et al. Swarms of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields can coordinate to act like ants, from packing together to form a floating raft to lifting objects hundreds of times...
