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Giant remote-controlled cyborg beetles could replace drones
For the first time scientists have shown it is possible to control insects, making them walk and even fly on demand. By Sarah Knapton.
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Octopus-Inspired Robots Can Grasp, Crawl, and Swim
Soft electronics and smart control mechanisms help these robots get a better grip on a complex world
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Inside Plum Island, America’s Only Foreign Animal Disease Lab
In this episode of Symptomatic, Motherboard visits [ecological nightmare factory] Plum Island.
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Schrödinger’s cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half
A clever experiment preserves the quantum nature of a set of electromagnetic waves even when they're split apart, a stunt that could help make working quantum computers. By Joshua Sokol (May 26 ’16)
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How The Medical Cadaver Finally Got the Respect it Deserves
The rise and fall of medical cadaver ceremonies. By Natalie Zarrelli.
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The Tuskegee Experiment Kept Killing Black People Decades After It Ended
A jarring new analysis shows how its effects lingered for decades afterward. By Jesse Singal.
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Should a human-pig chimera be treated as a person?
There is a well-documented organ shortage throughout the world. For example, 3,000 kidney transplants were made last year in the United Kingdom, but that still left 5,000 people on the waiting list at the end of the period. A lucrative trade in organs has grown up, and transplant tourism has become relatively common… By Julian Savulescu.
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Is it ever a good idea to perform self-surgery?
Medical literature is full of stories of people who have operated on themselves. Surprisingly, some lived to tell the tale. By Adam Taylor.
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One of the fastest growing fields in science still makes a lot of people very uncomfortable
The idea we can be anything we choose is “such an old-fashioned notion, with absolutely no backing whatsoever.” By Olivia Goldhill.
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Remote control of the brain is coming: how will we use it?
Controlling the minds of others from a distance has long been a favourite science fiction theme – but recent advances in genetics and neuroscience suggest that we might soon have that power for real... By Catriona Houston.
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New Startup Aims to Commercialize a Brain Prosthetic to Improve Memory
Kernel wants to build a neural implant based on neuroscientist Ted Berger’s memory research. By Eliza Strickland. (Aug. 16, 2016)
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Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
“Can we just inject electronic circuits through a needle into the brain, or other tissue, and then connect it, and then monitor? Yes, we can, and that’s where we are today.” By Kiki Sanford
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‘We’re growing brains outside of the body’
Madeleine Lancaster has 300 brains growing in her lab – here’s how she’s done it. By Zaria Gorvett.
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VA hospital’s LSD experiments sped brother’s fall into schizophrenia, Lee’s Summit man fears
Robert Rowland believed he received LSD while in Topeka’s Veteran’s Administration hospital more than 40 years ago. His death launched his brother Michael on a search back through America’s bizarre history of psychedelic drugs. By Joe Robertson.
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The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse
Elizabeth Letts, the bestselling author of ‘The Eighty Dollar Champion’ describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.
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How Artists, Mad Scientists and Speculative Fiction Writers Made Spaceflight Possible
A new book chronicles spaceflight’s centuries-long journey from dream to reality. By Ryan P. Smith.
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Mouse eggs made from skin cells in a dish
Breakthrough raises call for debate over prospect of artificial human eggs. By David Cyranoski.(Oct. 17, 2016)
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Dr. Death
Plano [Texas] surgeon Christopher Duntsch left a trail of bodies. The shocking story of a madman with a scalpel. By Matt Goodman.
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Into the Bewilderness
Charles Waterton was a pioneer of conservation. He was also extremely nutty, in ways that suggest he may have over-identified with his animal subjects. By Christine Ro.
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Questions about ex-[Ohio] BCI scientist may cast doubt on convictions
Dozens, if not hundreds, of criminal convictions in Ohio could be in jeopardy because a longtime forensic scientist at the state crime lab now stands accused of slanting evidence to help cops and prosecutors build their cases. By Mike Wagner, Jill Riepenhoff, Lucas Sullivan and Earl Rinehart.
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