Scientists: Superintelligent Robots May Be Dominant Form of Life
According to a group of prominent U.S. scientists, the dominant form of life in the universe is likely not biological creatures… but superintelligent robots. As...
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Scientists to map genome of medieval English king Richard III
(Reuters) – A year after they revealed a twisted skeleton found under a car park as the mortal remains of King Richard III, scientists in...
Neanderthal lineages excavated from modern human genomes
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from...
A not-close-enough view of ‘Hawking’
Stephen Hawking celebrated his 72d birthday this month, marking a little more than half a century since the British physicist was diagnosed with a degenerative...
Investigation finds Chinese factory slaughters 600 whale sharks a year
A four-year investigation by WildLifeRisk, a Hong Kong-based marine conservation group, has found that a single factory in China’s Zhejiang Province slaughters some 600 whale...
Black hole theory my ‘biggest blunder,’ Stephen Hawking says
Stephen Hawking now says light and information may be able to escape from black holes, doing an about-face on the objects that helped cement his...
Ancient Europeans: dark skinned, blue eyed?
An ancient European hunter-gatherer man had dark skin and blue eyes, a new genetic analysis has revealed. The analysis of the man, who lived in...
GlassesOff app claims to eliminate need for reading glasses
Like death and taxes, reading glasses can seem almost inevitable — perhaps until now. A new app called GlassesOff claims to be able to improve...
Shining Lights: 4 People Who Changed The World
We all like to think that our actions are, at some fundamental level, important. That at the end of the day we have left a...
To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?
NEW YORK (AP) — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she’d been waiting for months, and her parents...