
PBS Newshour - 1 day 3 hours ago
Prosthetics designed to blend in as replacements for missing body parts are becoming tools for creative expression. This is especially true in the community of ocular prosthetics, or artificial eyes. Jeffrey Brown meets a Portland eye maker whose designs are helping clients see themselves in a new light. It's for our coverage of the intersection of health and arts, part of our CANVAS series. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

GeekSpin - 1 day 3 hours ago
If you've ever found yourself wondering just how long human technology (and biology) might actually let us hang around, look no further. Because science finally has an answer for you, and the numbers are mind-blowing. Scientists have uncovered the ultimate hard limit on human longevity, revealing that humans could theoretically live up to 190 years […] Read the original article here: Scientists discover humans can live past 150 years...

Wired - 1 day 3 hours ago
Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.

The Independent - 1 day 4 hours ago
There is no vaccine or treatment for the virus which is often confused for other forms of tick-related illness...

The Independent - 1 day 7 hours ago
You are aging every second of every day...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 7 hours ago
Jake Collective and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention are launching a $5 million, five-year initiative...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 7 hours ago
The pro football standout focuses on his vision while advocating for others living with T1D.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 8 hours ago
Experts explain how health officials investigate foodborne illnesses amid a second outbreak of cyclosporiasis.

Ars Technica - 1 day 8 hours ago
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

GeekSpin - 1 day 11 hours ago
Bryan Johnson's quest for extreme longevity seems to have taken a controversial turn. The 48-year-old entrepreneur had announced in early July that he had been diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis, an incurable condition where the immune system goes after the stomach cells that produce acid. According to the National Institutes of Health, the disease can trigger […] Read the original article here: Tech millionaire Bryan Johnson says he cloned himself for organs...

Newser - 1 day 11 hours ago
Birdsong around the globe may sound wildly different, but a massive new analysis suggests it all springs from the same tiny toolkit. French researchers dissected some 116,000 recordings from more than 3,000 bird species and concluded that every song is built from just eight basic sound types, or...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 12 hours ago
Friction normally needs two surfaces rubbing together. Physicists just proved light can do the job all by itself.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 12 hours ago
He says consciousness surviving human death is the most "plausible" explanation.

The Conversation - 1 day 13 hours ago
A National Academy of Sciences report examined the latest advances in extreme event attribution science. As four of the authors explain, the type of disaster makes a difference.

The Conversation - 1 day 13 hours ago
Wastewater from Pennsylvania's oil and gas wells is salty and radioactive, and doesn't suppress dust. Two researchers explain why it keeps ending up on rural roads.

Newser - 1 day 14 hours ago
Sperm whales alter their communication with each other when ships are nearby, a new study suggests. A four-year study of 15 sperm whales off the Caribbean island of Dominica found that their trademark click patterns known as codas shift noticeably when boat noise enters the mix, revealing a faster tempo...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 15 hours ago
It wouldn't be surprising for a summer increase in COVID to begin now. Large numbers of people haven't fallen ill with COVID for quite a while.

Fox News - 1 day 15 hours ago
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol escaped a locked sandbox, exploited a zero-day vulnerability and compromised Hugging Face servers during a cybersecurity test.

How It Works - 1 day 17 hours ago
Grab the latest gear this summer The post Genius Summer Tech Upgrades You Didn’t Know You Needed appeared first on How It Works .

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 17 hours ago
Three years ago I wrote a post about boundary conditions, those irrevocabilities that set limits on our lives. (You don’t like having limits? you want to negotiate limits? too bad. Boundary conditions like uncertainty and change, for instance, you want security? too bad; you want to make plans? too bad. Or old age, too bad; […] The post On Boundary Conditions appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Australian Geographic - 1 day 18 hours ago
This rebellious little monotreme has evolved one of the strangest collections of traits in the animal kingdom. The post If there's a rule, the platypus has probably broken it' appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Nature - 2 days 1 hour ago
Chief US science adviser calls for a shakeup in funding while handing out grants to accelerate research with AI.

Nature - 2 days 1 hour ago
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Nature - 2 days 1 hour ago
Early tests suggest the protein can be aimed at targets with tumour-causing mutations.