By attaching the brains to a specially constructed device and running souped-up artificial blood through them, the researchers said they were able to restore some of the brains’ molecular and cellular functions.
Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death.
In a major test case, Medicare is poised to cover a promising but expensive new type of cancer treatment, with significant restrictions meant to hold down the cost.
Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a long-lost cousin of modern people, which evidently lived around the time our own species was spreading from Africa to occupy the rest of the world.
The long-lost cousin of modern people evidently lived around the time our own species was spreading from Africa to occupy the rest of the world.
In some science fiction movies, black holes are portrayed as the perfect jail for a recently defeated evil overlord — since not even light can break free from the natural phenomena.
Brainiac
For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesn’t exist
MIT researchers demonstrate that it’s impossible to find a faster way of computing “edit distance.”
A study suggests that tuning into the sound of your own chewing can help you eat mindfully--and therefore less.
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