Russian biotechnologists are proud because (they claim that) they achieved something unique so far: they connected the brain of a laboratory mouse with an “artificial intelligence” device, forcing the rodent …
Recruitment of everything
… We want the family of the Greek soldier to have the best protection. This means kindergarten for his child, special school with children with special needs. Let me give …
Scissors in the drawer
It has been hailed as the “elixir of life” for genetic engineering. It is touted as the “ultimate surgery” on a cellular scale. It is the legendary CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing method, …
Cop with a low center of gravity
If you think that this tractor-like-rubber object among the (Chinese) policemen has been arrested, you are mistaken. It is their newest tech-colleague! The police robot (built by Zhejiang University) was …
Hunting cloned sheep and other postmodern biotechnological absurdities
Sheep have been domesticated for about 12,000 years. Sheep have also been cloned since 1996 – Dolly was the first mammal to undergo this procedure. But this news appeared in …
Symmetrical life
Those who worship modern technology, the most capitalist kind, will increasingly struggle to keep up with it; yet they will only consume its dust. One of the most recent “achievements” …
To arms, to arms!!!
The stock market “value” hype of various american “giants” related to so-called AI has just intensified (across most of the planet) enthusiasm for the chinese deepseek, you know. Stock market …
Science; Of whom;
When in 1942, during the Second World War, a good portion of the Western physicists’ elite gathered in the US to transform their until-then theoretical knowledge and ideas into something …
Rewards…
It had a somewhat loose form (it was, after all, a trial…) but a fairly tight grasp: if you behave in an environmentally friendly way, then you will be rewarded. …
Free “punishments”
The amount, 1.4 billion dollars, may seem large. But it is insignificant: just 1/10 of the company’s profits in the second quarter of 2024… Consequently, Meta Platforms (reminder: the parent …
Catastrophic method failure!
Just a few years ago, a study bearing the prestigious signature of Columbia University’s Medical Center revealed that the highly publicized (and Nobel Prize-winning) genetic cut-and-paste method called CRISPR/Cas9 is …
Not everything is for sale!
This “beggar” (or perhaps homeless?) in the photographs (in the Moscow metro) is called Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman. He is probably the greatest living mathematician and geometer – certainly for half, …