A 53-year-old man has become the third patient ever to be completely cured of HIV after receiving stem cell transplantation, German researchers have announced. The so-called “Düsseldorf patient”—who was diagnosed with HIV in 2008—had received […]
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Why is Science Slowing Down?
Science is the engine of society, and the decline of truly disruptive research is a warning sign for all of us. There might be more science now, but it feels like it adds up to […]
Next Up for CRISPR: Gene Editing for The Masses?
Last year, Verve Therapeutics started the first human trial of a CRISPR treatment that could benefit most people—a signal that gene editing may be ready to go mainstream. Gene-editing treatments work by directly altering the […]
Scientists Use Graphene to Construct Tractor Beam
Physicists in China report that they have built a tractor beam capable of moving objects on the macroscale. In the latest issue of Optics Express, the group reports that when using a 90mW laser, their […]
These Scientists Created Jewellery Out Of the Striking Shapes of Chaos Theory
Not just inspired by chaos theory, but directly created from its mathematical principles. A team of Italian scientists has figured out a way of turning the striking, complex twisting shapes of chaos theory into actual […]
MIT’s Superthin Solar Cells Convert Any Surface Into a Power Source
MIT engineers have developed ultralight and thinner-than-hair fabric solar cells that transform any surface into a power generator within seconds of plastering them. The durable and flexible solar cells are pasted to a super-light fabric, […]
This Amazing Interactive Map of the Universe Takes You All the Way Back to the Big Bang
An astronomy professor from Johns Hopkins University has given us the chance to zoom way out in both time and space with an interactive map of the observable universe. “In this map, we are just […]
The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art
Diffusion models generate incredible images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, causes ink to spread through water. Ask DALL·E 2, an image generation system created by OpenAI, to paint a picture […]
How Music Casts Its Spell on Us
“Music so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.” “Music,” the trailblazing composer Julia Perry wrote, “has a unifying effect on the peoples of […]
The Real Science Behind ‘The Last Of Us’, According to a Biologist
Esquire speaks to Professor David Hughes, who consulted on the original “The Last of Us” videogame. At the beginning of the first episode of The Last Of Us, there’s a fictional 1968 TV broadcast in […]
This British Zoologist Wants to Reinvent Color
Andrew Parker has produced some of the brightest hues in the world. So, what’s his secret? Andrew Parker, an English inventor, artist and zoologist at the University of Oxford, thinks color is not a thing. […]
The Year in Space 2022
With beginnings, endings, and new discoveries, space was a busy place in 2022. New Atlas looks back at the best space stories of the past 12 months. Once in full operation, the James Webb Space […]
A Bold Effort to Cure HIV – Using Crispr
An experiment tests whether the gene-editing technology can stop the virus from replicating, which would ultimately wipe out the infection. In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at […]
The Genealogy of Chinese Cybernetics
Proposed by Qian Xuesen in the ‘90s as a new scientific discipline, the “meta-synthetic approach” to study the “open complex giant system” still exerts influence over thinking on high-tech social management, smart cities, and state […]
There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies
The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly. One of the challenges of turning test tube Crispr discoveries into cures for […]
Building Momentum for Global AI-Driven Longevity Transformation
AI is a key technological enabler of aging research and the only hope to move the longevity progress fast enough for the existing generation to live longer than nature currently permits. Helping people live healthier […]
China Discovers Stunning Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy
The find makes China the third country to discover a new mineral on the Moon, and the country says it’s analyzed the soil for rare helium-3. China has discovered a crystal from the Moon made […]
Webb Telescope Sees Jupiter and Auroras in a New Light
“It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image.” NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is designed to probe the farthest frontiers of […]
James Webb Telescope Takes Super Sharp View of Early Cosmos
The first full-colour picture from the new James Webb Space Telescope has been released – and it doesn’t disappoint. The image is said to be the deepest, most detailed infrared view of the Universe to […]
CRISPR, 10 Years On: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life
The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA. In just a decade, CRISPR has become one of the most celebrated inventions […]
NASA is Putting Together a Research Team to Study UFOs
NASA announced that it is putting together an independent team of researchers this fall to study sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, the updated term now used to refer to UFOs. The space agency […]
Eavesdropping on the Brain With 10,000 Electrodes
Thanks to advances in neuroscience and microelectronics engineering, we finally have a tool that will let us begin to reverse engineer the wonders of the brain. People often think of technology as applied science, but […]
How to Make the Universe Think for Us
Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors. When it comes to conventional machine learning, computer scientists have […]
The Incredible Life of Maria Sibylla Merian
In the jungle of Suriname, the German-born Swiss naturalist, entomologist and botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian discovered insect metamorphosis. This animation celebrates her many notable contributions to the natural sciences in an age when such […]
Turning Back the Clock
Imagine if we could turn back the clock on age-related illnesses by reprogramming our cells to be younger? In a recent Nature Aging paper, Genentech and Salk Institute scientists show that cellular reprogramming techniques safely […]
Algae Grown by an Artificial Intelligence Could Broduce ‘Clean’ Fuel for Jets
Researchers at Texas A&M believe that algal biofuels could reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate change, alleviate petroleum dependency and transform the bio-economy. Professor Joshua Yuan said: “The commercialisation of algal biofuel has been hindered by […]
Footage of Hypersonic Metallic UFO Shown by Pentagon Officials at Historic Hearing
UFO sightings are “frequent and continuing,” Pentagon officials said at the first public hearing on the subject since the 1960s. Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown […]
Researchers Use Algae to Power a Computer for Months
The experiment suggests that cyanobacteria ‘batteries’ using sunlight and water could run small devices. Researchers have discovered how to use cyanobacteria—commonly called blue-green algae—to continuously power a microprocessor for a span of more than six […]
The First Photo of the Milky Way’s Monster Black Hole Sagittarius A*
The Event Horizon Telescope has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The image, which was taken in the light of submillimeter radio waves, confirms that […]
Hologram Doctors Beamed to Space Station to Visit Astronauts
In 2021, a team of hologram doctors was “holoported” to space to visit astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA has revealed in a new post. The hologram teams, led by NASA flight surgeon […]