You would think that a plant scientist would go home to a farm, but Neil Stewart used to work with potatoes, not human cadres. Influenced by environmental pollutants, Stuart was on a tour at the University of Tennessee’s ‘Body Farm’ – formally known as the Anthropology Research Facility – where …
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On July 14, Jefferson County Public Health officials announced that they found the first case of bubonic plague in a squirrel. Only three days later, the first human case of bubonic plague was confirmed. The first human cases of the plague came from Inner Mongolia when two brothers were hospitalized …
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Researchers have discovered a neural overlap between humans and machines that helps explain why what we see in our mind’s eye is different from the information our real eyes process when we observe something in reality. With the help of an fMRI scanner and artificial neural network, an AI engine …
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If we’re going to take long-term space travel seriously, it will be essential to be able to repair injuries, and that is no longer a distant concept. A cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station has just designed human cartilage in microgravity from space for the first time. Bioprinters that can …
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One of the conspiracy theories that has plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. But the vast majority of scientists who have studied the virus agree that it evolved naturally and crossed humans from an animal species, …
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