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Thomas Oxley is the founder and CEO of Synchron, a company creating a brain-computer interface, or BCI. ​​These devices work ...

The researchers used solar panels to run a machine that converts carbon dioxide, electricity, and water into acetate—a molecule that ...

While gene editing relies on changing the DNA code itself, epigenetic editing involves dialing the expression of individual genes up ...

Today mifepristone is often used in combination with another drug, misoprostol, and together the pair are more than 95 percent ...

 In the aftermath of the massacre in Buffalo, New York, at the hands of a white supremacist terrorist, scientists can ...

After acting as the scanner-in-chief for the company that invented the eFit, [Konstantin] Borodin is now the lead ear spelunker ...

Lines on charts can tell you something about the state of the Covid pandemic in the United States. Deaths: declining, ...

The supposed benefit of biofuel is that, although it still releases carbon dioxide when it burns, that carbon was drawn ...

In early February 2016, after reading an article featuring a couple of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who ...

Of all the potential fixes for the climate crisis, none has captured hearts and minds quite like tree planting. It’s ...

Christine Picard's search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, ...

One bone became particularly useful as a hearing device, the hyomandibular bone, a strut that, in fish, controls the gills ...

Would you like to benefit from the massive, game-changing, groundbreaking genomic revolution, already well underway? If you’re white, you’re in ...

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a complicated range of conditions affecting the behavior, social ...

The company is taking carbon dioxide—the pernicious greenhouse gas warming our planet—and transforming it into a juicy steak or a ...

Insecticides kill off most of the mosquitoes in an area. But a small number may survive because something about their ...

According to multiple studies, one in three pregnancies results in miscarriage, and one in 33 babies that are born will ...

The forces driving the synthesized meat movement are practical. Modern agricultural systems are helping destabilize Earth's climate and ecosystems, while extreme ...

Over the course of the past few years, the idea that a twitch or an itch reveals a person’s innermost ...

To figure out how to slow (or even stop) ageing, we need to know why our bodies do it in ...

The downsides of existing fungicides and pesticides are well-known: Residue from the sprays can build up in the environment and ...

Neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and Alzheimer’s are more feared than cancer and heart disease combined, according to a 2016 survey, ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, protects individuals’ medical information when it's handled by doctors, hospitals, ...

If you’ve ever spit into a plastic tube or swabbed your cheek and mailed your saliva away to learn about ...

We often talk about steak, lamb chops, bacon and chicken nuggets as if they’re on a level playing field. Just ...

In early August 2021, a preprint reported a potentially huge discovery. Researchers had looked at samples that were collected as ...

Farming has a major food waste problem. Approximately 40 per cent of the food produced globally goes uneaten every year, ...

With AI, engineers had typically used a top-down approach to programming, as though they were gods making creatures in their ...