I routinely control my own dreams. During a recent episode, in my dream laboratory, my experience went like this: I was asleep on a twin mattress in the dark lab room, wrapped in a cozy duvet and a blanket of...
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In June 1972, the Royal Society of Medicine in London hosted a symposium called “Man in His Place”. It featured an eclectic group of speakers, including Jacob Bronowski, whose acclaimed 13-part BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, would air...
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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