Five years ago, scientists watched in wonder as synthetic bacteria grew and split into daughter cells. The bacteria’s extremely stripped-down genome still supported its entire life cycle. It was a ...

Michelle Johnson was 20 weeks into her pregnancy when she learned her unborn son had spina bifida. Because his spine hadn’t fully sealed, the spinal cord was left protruding from a gaping hole.

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In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink implant allowed a quadriplegic patient to play RuneScape and Slay the Spire in his brain. But now, scientists are taking things further, training lab-grown brain cells ...

William Parks is a Game Rant editor from the USA. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, William entered the realm of fine arts administration, ...

Scientists have trained a computer made from living human neurons to play the classic video game Doom, marking a strange but important step forward in biological computing. A clump of roughly 200,000 ...

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci ...

Tesla is expanding ties with LG Energy Solution and has agreed to buy $4.3 billion worth of battery cells produced in Lansing, Michigan for energy storage systems. The cells will be made by LG at a ...

A series of White House social-media videos turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New York Times. He has ...

Leonardo DiCaprio gracefully accepted the honor of being the “King of Memes” as he sportingly created a new one at the 2026 Oscars. The 51-year-old was nominated in the Best Actor category for Paul ...

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