A 2D facial robot covered with living skinTakeuchi et al. This bizarre smiling face is made from living human skin cells, and its creators say it could one day be attached to a humanoid robot to help machines communicate more...
A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsianHenry Sutherland Sharpe The oldest known sabre-toothed animal hunted large prey 270 million years ago – and its newly discovered remains could help us unravel how early mammal relatives became warm-blooded. The first land-based...
Many AI models are trained on copyrighted materialMetamorworks/Getty Images The UK government has announced plans to allow artificial intelligence models to be trained on copyrighted content, settling one of the big uncertainties of the current AI revolution – but the...
December 17, 20243 min readWhy Some Brains Don't Rot and Other Wild Things We Learned about the Human Body in 2024From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’tdecompose, here are some of the...
December 17, 20245 min readSilicon Valley Is Reviving the Discredited and Discriminatory Idea of ‘Race Science’Scientific racism today must be seen and rejected for what it truly is—a hollow attempt to dress discrimination in the garb of science and reasonBy...
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Images and videos of airbrushed bodies come thick and fast on social mediamartin-dm/Getty Images On many social media sites, messaging about food and diet is everywhere. Watch the “for you” feed on TikTok for more than a few minutes –...
December 16, 20244 min readWhy It’s a Bad Idea to Shoot at New Jersey ‘Mystery Drones’Surging reports of strange drones in the skies over New Jersey and other parts of the northeast U.S. have spurred calls to shoot down the...
The bartender says: “We don’t serve time travellers in here.” A time traveller walks into a bar. OK, yes, I will almost certainly regret starting this article with such a hoary old joke. At some point, most of us have...
