Elon Musk said on the social media platform X on Monday that the first human patient has received a brain implant developed by his company Neuralink. The product also now has a...
Given the right conditions, tiny airborne particles of the rock mineral feldspar can influence cloud formation. Just how this happens, however, has never been clear.Now new research has now solved the mystery...
Since 2021, all dominant Covid variants have descended from Omicron. The 2023–2024 booster was tailored for the XBB.1.5 strain of Omicron, but JN.1 is about as different from XBB.1.5 as Omicron was...
The stories we tell ourselves about the natural world can sometimes stretch far from the truth.For years, visitors to the rainforests of Central and South America have been told of a tree...
The early 1970s were the real heyday of beef in the US. It was the era of stroganoff, stews, and casseroles, steak lunches and 60-cent hamburgers. It was also the beginning of...
Scientists have discovered how our DNA can use a genetic fast-forward button to make new genes for quick adaptation to our ever-changing environments.During an investigation into DNA replication errors, researchers from Finland's...
But the detector is more complicated than you might think. “The detector is made up of many different layers,” she explains. “We often describe it as an onion.” At the center, there’s...
Underwater cameras have captured a unique dolphin behavior off the coast of Western Australia in what scientists suspect is a world-first.For decades now, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and local crabbers in the...
