Elon Musk’s Pig-Brain Implant Is Still a Long Way from ‘Solving Paralysis’
[ad_1] Last week Elon Musk’s brain tech start-up Neuralink unveiled the latest version of its neural implant technology. In characteristic
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LIGO and Virgo Capture Their Most Massive Black Holes Yet
[ad_1] The alert caught Zsuzsanna Márka’s attention immediately. Whenever the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its European counterpart
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Stop Stealing Doctors from Developing Countries
[ad_1] Every year, more than 4,000 foreign graduates of international medical schools come to the United States for a residency
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Want to Talk to Aliens? Try Changing the Technological Channel Beyond Radio
[ad_1] The endeavor known as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has long relied on radio telescopes to listen for
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How Those Bogus Reports on ‘Ineffective’ Neck Gaiters Got Started
[ad_1] In early August, there was a lot of hubbub around a study that purportedly showed that wearing a neck
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How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos
[ad_1] In 1835 French philosopher Auguste Comte asserted that nobody would ever know what the stars were made of. “We
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Quantum Computing May Be Closer Than You Think
[ad_1] Fully functional quantum computers and a new quantum industry may appear much sooner than many have anticipated—thanks to five
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Welcome to 175 Years of Discovery
[ad_1] An orientation to our special issue Advertisement A few years after the first issue of this magazine was published,
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Doctors Chase Treatment for Kids Threatened by Dangerous COVID-19 Syndrome
[ad_1] On a warm, mid-June afternoon a concerned mother brought her 11-year-old daughter, who had a high fever and a
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COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven’t Had Any Symptoms
[ad_1] Beyond its scientific backing, the notion that a COVID-19 patient might wind up with long-term lung scarring or breathing
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