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‘We can’t answer these questions’: Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness


‘We can’t answer these questions’: Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness

‘We can’t answer these questions’: Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness

And then the big insight, which came from Yoshiki Sasai in Japan and Madeline Lancaster, was to take these neurons that were beginning to differentiate — cells relatively early in development — and put them in a drop of what's called Matrigel — a gel that can be either a liquid or a solid depending on the temperature.


Why the UK was so ill prepared for the covid-19 pandemic

Why the UK was so ill prepared for the covid-19 pandemic

As a result, when the covid-19 pandemic began there were no plans in place for implementing measures such as border controls, lockdowns or testing people and tracing their contacts to identify those who might be infected with the coronavirus and prevent them passing it on to others.


Jurassic Park inspires a new way to store DNA data

Jurassic Park inspires a new way to store DNA data

To test the resilience of the polymer, the researchers encapsulated strands of DNA containing the encoded Jurassic Park theme music and a human’s entire genetic instruction book in the amberlike material and then exposed it to temperatures of 55° Celsius, 65° C and 75° C at 70 percent humidity over seven days.


Anti-inflammatory drug extended the lifespan of mice by 20 per cent

Anti-inflammatory drug extended the lifespan of mice by 20 per cent

While small doses of inflammation can protect us from disease or injury, excessive amounts damage cells, which is believed to accelerate ageing.


9 miles of solid diamonds may lurk beneath Mercury’s surface, new study finds

9 miles of solid diamonds may lurk beneath Mercury’s surface, new study finds

Mercury might have a thick layer of diamonds thousands of miles below its surface, a new research study programs. The searchings for, published June 14 in the journal Nature Communications, might aid fix mysteries concerning the earth’s composition and strange electromagnetic field. That latter attribute is what stimulated the curiosity of Yanhao Lin, a personnel...


I really want this Apple laptop Prime Day deal: Get $300 off the latest MacBook Pro

I really want this Apple laptop Prime Day deal: Get $300 off the latest MacBook Pro

The MacBook Pro has long been the king of Apple laptops, however the 2021 revision brought with a brand-new style that returned additional ports, restored MagSafe billing and presented the stunning Liquid Retina XDR screen. Lloyd Coombes freelance technology and physical fitness author for Live Science. He’s a professional in all points Apple in addition...


Plants might not hold on to carbon as long as we thought

Plants might not hold on to carbon as long as we thought

That fact became a scientific silver lining to the bomb tests: The bursts of radiocarbon circulating through Earth’s system, scientists realized, were a lot like pulses of radioactive medical tracers traveling through a human body.


Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no basis in science

Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no basis in science

There are two possibilities here: either they are wrong, as scientific evidence suggests, and pointless legislation is now being cut and pasted across the world, or they are right and have now alerted their adversaries that this is a number worth paying attention to.


‘Unprecedented and inconceivable’: pylon falls over after nuts removed

‘Unprecedented and inconceivable’: pylon falls over after nuts removed

Recently, in the International Journal of Advance and Applied Research, Hanumant Dattatray Shinde of Shri Padmamani Jain Arts and Commerce College calculated that, over the course of a year, “up to 1.56 TMC [thousand million cubic metres]” of water evaporates from the Ghod Dam.


Panda ant: The wasps whose black and white females have giant stingers and parasitic babies

Panda ant: The wasps whose black and white females have giant stingers and parasitic babies

Panda ants have another uncommon skill– the capability to produce high-pitched noises by scrubing together components of their bodies such as their antennae or legs to caution off killers. Other wasps from the Mutillidae family can create similar sounds, the noise made by panda ants can get to ultrasonic levels. A female panda ant can...


‘Space hurricanes’ churn at both of Earth’s magnetic poles

‘Space hurricanes’ churn at both of Earth’s magnetic poles

When the lines reconnect, they roil ionized gas in the ionosphere, driving flows of electric current upward, the team suggests.


Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?

Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?

After the satellite data was collected, the team used a search-and-rescue computer model to see what paths it simulated for various objects that resembled the profile of a dead whale, including a skiff, a life raft and a small vessel called a panga, based on the same location and weather conditions.


How doctors can help demystify birth control amid online confusion

How doctors can help demystify birth control amid online confusion

Centering the patient during contraceptive counseling means validating and exploring their concerns and talking about “what you can do to support them in a treatment plan that feels good to them,” says Andrea Hoopes, an adolescent medicine physician-researcher at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.


Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in Australia

Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in Australia

Pfautsch, who is a professor of urban planning and management at Western Sydney University, also expressed concern about the project's reliance on public donations to keep afloat: "Continued state and federal government funding is critical to secure the growth of the trees," he said.


Artificial flavours released by cooking aim to improve lab-grown meat

Artificial flavours released by cooking aim to improve lab-grown meat

Johannes le Coutre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, says he is sceptical of the work for numerous reasons, including that the flavour tests predominantly used an electronic nose to assess the chemicals being released, rather than human judgement of whether they smelled appetising.


Making roofs white or reflective is the best way to keep a city cool

Making roofs white or reflective is the best way to keep a city cool

A 2023 report by the Greater London Authority suggested that cool roofs may become an increasing policy focus for city officials as summer temperatures rise under climate change.


More than 100 shark species may face major population declines by 2100

More than 100 shark species may face major population declines by 2100

Noémie Coulon at the French National Museum of Natural History subjected catshark eggs to various ocean conditions, including monthly temperature changes, in tanks in the lab.


This 3-D printer can fit in the palm of your hand

This 3-D printer can fit in the palm of your hand

A new 3-D printer that’s mere millimeters in size could offer a new way to produce customizable objects, scientists report June 6 in Light: Science & Applications.


Britain saw centuries of economic growth under Roman rule

Britain saw centuries of economic growth under Roman rule

The researchers think that this growth was driven by factors such as the roads and ports built by the Romans, the laws they introduced making trading safer, and their technologies, such as more advanced grain mills and better breeds of animals for ploughing.


Giant salamander-like predator roamed Namibia 280 million years ago

Giant salamander-like predator roamed Namibia 280 million years ago

Claudia Marsicano at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and her colleagues have now described these fossils in detail, naming the species Gaiasia jennyae after the Gai-As formation in Namibia and the palaeontologist Jennifer Clack.


Scientists Say: Excitation

Scientists Say: Excitation

nitrogen: A colorless, odorless and nonreactive gaseous element that forms about 78 percent of Earth's atmosphere.


Rare, mystery blasts from sun can devastate the ozone layer and spike radiation levels on Earth

Rare, mystery blasts from sun can devastate the ozone layer and spike radiation levels on Earth

His research is characterised by multi-disciplinary approaches combining information from areas such as climate change, geology, archaeology, microbiology, and anthropology to generate novel methods to study evolution, population genetics, medical science and conservation.


The best new science fiction books of July 2024

The best new science fiction books of July 2024

This short story collection will give us a “kaleidoscopic view of the climate crisis”, promises its publisher, moving from a boy trying to bring the natural world back to his urban life to a ballet dancer trying to inhabit the consciousness of a rat (at this stage, it isn’t clear why – but I’m keen to find out).


Alien ‘warp drives’ may leave telltale signals in the fabric of space-time, new paper claims

Alien ‘warp drives’ may leave telltale signals in the fabric of space-time, new paper claims

"Any matter moving around in an irregular way can potentially create gravitational waves," study co-author Katy Clough, a theoretical physicist at Queen Mary University of London, told Live Science in an email.


‘Do I Know You?’ explores face blindness and the science of the mind

‘Do I Know You?’ explores face blindness and the science of the mind

She volunteers for research studies, undergoes brain scans, takes vision tests, plays virtual reality games and scores a beeper that she wears for a few hours each week, intermittently prompting her to record every bit of her conscious experience.


The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

After the first covid-19 cases were declared in mainland China in late 2019, she became a central player in the Taiwanese government’s response as a cabinet member for digital affairs.


Some people have never gotten COVID-19. An obscure gene may be why

Some people have never gotten COVID-19. An obscure gene may be why

The results stem from a challenge trial: At the height of the pandemic in 2021, scientists in the United Kingdom exposed 36 young, healthy unvaccinated volunteers who’d never gotten COVID-19 to the virus through their noses (SN: 2/18/21).


Baby-led weaning makes little nutritional difference vs spoon-feeding

Baby-led weaning makes little nutritional difference vs spoon-feeding

The researchers found no significant differences in daily energy intake – as defined by the number of calories consumed per kilogram of the baby’s body weight – at any point between the groups.


Pierce’s disease still plagues California wine country

Pierce’s disease still plagues California wine country

It is published by the Society for Science, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education (EIN 53-0196483).


Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome

Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome

A fossil bone displaying features consistent with Down’s syndrome belonged to a Neanderthal child who survived beyond 6 years old, adding to evidence that these extinct humans cared for members of their community


How powdered rock could help slow climate change

How powdered rock could help slow climate change

And from Michigan to Mississippi, farmers are scattering volcanic rock dust on their wheat, soy and corn fields with ag spreaders typically reserved for dispersing crushed limestone to adjust soil acidity.


Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars

Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars

Syntrichia caninervis is widespread in some of Earth’s harshest locations, including Tibet and Antarctica, so Xiaoshuang Li at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography in Urumqi, China, and his colleagues decided to subject it to a brutal suite of tests to discover just how much it could survive.


‘The beauty of symbolic equations is that it’s much easier to 
 see a problem at a glance’: How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

‘The beauty of symbolic equations is that it’s much easier to 
 see a problem at a glance’: How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

For lots of, the idea of mathematics will certainly restore unlimited hours of solutions and formulas at school. It may seem hard to envision, however there when was a time when math really did not exist. Of course, there was still the need to utilize intricate computations to solve real-world problems, yet it had not...


Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer

Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer

Later, physicists realised that the demon could not break thermodynamic laws “for free” because it would spend energy during its particle selection process, but the idea remained of interest because it can naturally occur in biology and has uses in chemistry.


An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River

An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River

Flooding from a river shift caused by a similar quake today could threaten up to 170 million people — a number equal to about half the population of the United States — who live in an Illinois-sized area of India and Bangladesh, Chamberlain says.