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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2026 . Brain Chip Helps Blind People See Elon Musk says his company Neuralink is aiming to restore partial sight to fully blind patients in 2026. The company plans to test its newest and most powerful implant, Blindsight, in humans early this year. The chip will be wirelessly connected to an external video camera and implanted into the brain's visual cortex. Bypassing the eyes, it is designed to generate the perception of vision based on what...
Are my exercise routines, which were meant to keep me from falling apart, slowing my demise, or accelerating it?...
Residents of the Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates received notices saying debris removal will finally begin on Jan. 2, after months of waiting and uncertainty. Not everyone trusts it will actually happen.
A horseshoe crab at Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn in 2023. New York has joined Connecticut and New Jersey in enacting protections for the species.
Before Luna's heart transplant, Dr. Goldstone advised Dr. McKiernan to "plan the surgery out every detail down to the suture," she recalled.
A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there's no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, consciousness alone isn't the ethical tipping point anyway; sentience, the capacity to feel good or bad, is what truly matters. He argues that claims of conscious AI are often more marketing than science, and that believing in machine minds too easily could cause real harm. The safest stance for now...
There is growing evidence that the women were part of an early female religious community.
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In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocat petl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For five years, the group from Mexico's National Autonomous University has...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 15 hours agoThe theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool for the job and we may start seeing this take off in 2026...
This time, a Colorado plant scheduled to shut down will be kept on standby.
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Three experts share the science behind taking a dip in cold water and offer safety tips that any potential plungers should bear in mind...
Research shows that people who sleep poorly tend to have brain age that is older than their actual age. Chronic inflammation in the body caused by poor sleep likely plays a part.
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Scientists have discovered a clever way to turn carrot processing leftovers into a nutritious and surprisingly appealing protein. By growing edible fungi on carrot side streams, researchers produced fungal mycelium that can replace traditional plant-based proteins in foods like vegan patties and sausages. When people sampled the foods, many preferred the versions made entirely with the fungal protein over those made with soy or chickpeas.
Nature - 2 days 9 hours agoBiodiversity loss in sub-Saharan Africa has been estimated using the expertise of 200 local specialists.
Nature - 2 days 9 hours agoA tiny population of cells that are passed across the placenta between mother and baby challenge basic tenets of human immunology.
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