She doesn’t know it yet, but a baby girl living somewhere near Boston has made history. The seven-week-old is one […]
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A noninvasive brain-computer interface capable of converting a person’s thoughts into words could one day help people who have lost […]
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In the late 1980s, NASA conducted a study to determine how well indoor plants like aloe vera, Chinese ivy, and […]
Although most of us think of fungi as “mushrooms,” these spore-producing bodies are just the reproductive organs of mycelium—decentralized, weblike […]
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There are trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies—and we might be able to modify them to help […]
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Embryos made from stem cells—instead of a sperm and egg—have been created from monkey cells for the first time. When […]
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