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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader...

Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out

Susan Monarez is no longer the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according...

A new antiviral blocks 6 deadly viruses in mice but faces a long road ahead

A sugar present on virus envelopes might become the target of new antiviral treatments for a range of...

What makes chocolate taste so good? It’s the microbes

Like wine and cheese, chocolate has terroir, a sense of the place it was grown. Each bonbon...

SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight

Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days of postponements,...

NASA’s Largest Satellite Antenna Ever Has Just Unfurled in Space

A Flowerlike satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna reflector ever...

What It’s Like to Work at a Body Farm

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human...

Useful metals get unearthed in U.S. mines, then they’re tossed

Many useful metals unearthed from U.S. mines are discarded. When mining operations dig for valuable metals, they...

Elderly cats with dementia may hold clues for Alzheimer’s

As cats age, they may yowl more than usual at night, have trouble sleeping or sleep too...

Scientists perform the first pig-to-human lung transplant

Scientists have, for the first time, transplanted a genetically engineered pig lung into a human. The lung...

The mysterious, extinct ‘Fuegian dog’ was actually a semi-tame fox

A strange and mysterious extinct dog breed from far southern South America might not have been a...

IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms

The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM...
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