In a big step towards making humans more bionic, scientists have trained monkeys to control not just one, but two virtual arms by thoughts alone. The work could someday be a boon to double amputees or quadriplegics. Read more…
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Bionic humans are about to get an upgrade, thanks to monkey cyborgs
Once these stores and factories sold the stuff of children’s dreams, but now that they lie abandoned—filled with decaying displays and disembodied doll heads—they are more likely to inspire nightmares. Read more…
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These Abandoned Toy Factories and Shops Will Haunt Your Nightmares
Planet-hunting scientists announced today that 22% of sunlike stars in the Milky Way are orbited by potentially habitable, Earth-size worlds. This remarkable finding indicates that there may be as many as two billion planets in our galaxy suitable for life — and that the nearest such planet may be only 12 light-years away. Read more…
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Two Billion Reasons Why We’re About to Find Earth 2
Detroit isn’t a decaying city anymore — it’s a city in transition. Though its population dropped by 50 percent in the past half-century, and roughly a third of its buildings are abandoned, the place is coming to life again. Farmers are taking over the industrial wastes. Read more…
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People are building enormous farms in the ruins of Detroit
Music scholars are recreating ancient Greek songs that haven’t been heard for thousands of years. The results aren’t very inspiring, but we’re finally getting a sense of what the ancients were listening to. Read more…
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Listen to 2,500-year-old music brought back to life
It’s official: A “number of” previously missing Doctor Who episodes have been “returned to the BBC, ” and we’ll find out how many, and which ones, later this week. Read more…
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It’s official: A "number of" previously missing Doctor Who episodes have been "returned to the BBC,"
It’s one of those unintended consequences of medication that you rarely think about. What happens when parents are using a medical cream, and then they hug their kids? In two recent cases, it caused toddlers to go through early puberty. Read more…
Time to update all your periodic tables . Read more…
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The official atomic weights of 19 elements have just been changed
Occasionally, lobsters turn up with malformed claws due to a genetic mutation—but even among those lobsters, Lola is an oddity. On one side, she has a perfectly normal claw, and on the other, five mini-claws. Read more…
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This rare mutant lobster has six claws
As if summer 2015 wasn’t already looking overloaded with huge movies, now there’s one more. The fourth Jurassic Park movie, now titled Jurassic World , is coming out June 12, 2015 . Colin Trevorrow ( Safety Not Guaranteed ) is officially directing from a script he co-wrote with Safety co-writer Derek Connolly. Read more…
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Jurassic Park IV renamed Jurassic World, and it’s coming in June 2015