What's My Best Chance of Living Forever?
The experts weigh in on the plausibility of scientific methods for achieving immortality, or something close to it.
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The experts weigh in on the plausibility of scientific methods for achieving immortality, or something close to it.
The discovery is helping to resolve a longstanding question as to when segmented, mobile animals first appeared on the planet.
Good news for alcoholic rats, but not so helpful for humans.
These differences seem to be linked not just to the shape and size of the breed, but also the specific behaviours they were bred for.
Sometimes all you need to track endangered species are small fishing nets and a few bottles of nail varnish.
Don't drink and scoot, especially when you're without the proper safety equipment.
Rather, our sexual preferences are influenced by a complex mix of our genes, environment, and life experiences.
It’s not hard to see the similarities between The Darkening and climate change.
The discovery of a nearly intact skull in Ethiopia is the first to show the facial characteristics of a critically important species linked to early hominin evolution.
Krang you believe it?
One day it could be used to quickly clear blockages and clots that contribute to strokes and aneurysms.
Check out this sweet comic strip.
A team of scientists has successfully inseminated the eggs of the last two remaining northern white rhinos to help prevent the species from dying off.
“Out there, there is literally a trillion or so pieces of pumice making up this raft. And each piece of pumice is a vehicle for some organism.”
The problem isn’t with Pluto. The problem is that language hasn’t evolved as fast as our understanding of the universe.
Some ways we might die in the world of tomorrow that are a little more interesting than “fell in the shower while reaching for the shampoo”.
