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From 350,757 coin flips to prove probability to assessing the swimming abilities of dead trout, the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize have been recognized for their work in absurd scientific research. And somewhat fitting for the recipients, they all … Continue reading Butt-breathing mammals and dead fish swimming: The 2024 Ig Nobel Prize
Imagine waking early Sunday morning to ride the twisty coastal mountains of beautiful southern California. It’s going to be a perfect day and you expect exactly zero traffic, because you’re leaving the Hayabusa in the garage and taking your UDX Airwolf… Continue reading Cruise-capable eVTOL flying motorcycle rocks tilting thrusters
Imagine waking early Sunday morning to ride the twisty coastal mountains of beautiful southern California. It’s going to be a perfect day and you expect exactly zero traffic, because you’re leaving the Hayabusa in the garage and taking your UDX Airwolf… Continue reading Cruise-capable eVTOL flying motorcycle rocks tilting thrusters
In what sounds more like the opening scene from a B-grade sci-fi/horror flick, head transplant operations performed entirely by robotic surgeons could be coming to a hospital near you within a decade, if startup BrainBridge is to be believed.Continue R… Continue reading Video: Head transplants performed by robots planned within the decade
Scientists have tweaked traditional cloning of mammals that has resulted in a healthy rhesus monkey who has now passed his second birthday. It’s the first successful cloning of the species, and a big deal for researchers given that primates having prov… Continue reading Cloned monkey ReTro reaches insanely rare milestone of second birthday
In what sounds a little like the opening scenes from a sci-fi horror film, a team of scientists has taken seven-day-old monkey embryo stem cells and injected them into an unrelated four-to-five-day embryo from the same species, which was then injected … Continue reading The first true chimeric monkey is born ‘glowing’ with two sets of DNA
[Devin Coldewey] shared his experiences with some of the more unusual VR concepts on display at SIGGRAPH 2023. Some of these ideas are pretty interesting in their own right, and …read more Continue reading See Some Of The Stranger VR Ideas From SIGGRAPH
Some sharks get a new set of teeth every few weeks, while crocodiles can go through thousands of chompers in their long lifetimes. Yet the ability to endlessly replace our pearly whites is something that’s eluded us and nearly all other mammals. By the… Continue reading Humans may soon grow new teeth, with promising drug trial set
In an aerospace example of the operation being a success but the patient dying, NASA has declared a satisfactory end to its X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft project, despite the fact that the research plane will never leave the ground.Continue Readin… Continue reading NASA’ s all-electric X-57 stays grounded despite project successes
A professor from the University of South Florida has broken the world record for living in an underwater habitat. Associate Professor Joseph Dituri resided inside Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo for more than 75 days since March 1, 2023 and intends … Continue reading Soggy professor breaks underwater-living record in sea habitat