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Scientists propose to develop a biological computer powered by millions of human brain cells that they say could outperform silicon-based machines while consuming far less energy. From a report: The international team, led by Johns Hopkins University i…
Existing UK fertility law should be updated to regulate modern treatments, says HFEAChildren born via sperm or egg donation would not need to wait until adulthood to find out more about their biological parents, under proposed changes to the law in the…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Shadows can do some adventurous, sometimes malignant, poetic things: They move, rebel, hide, refuse to be identified, vanish. All these visual aspects provide fertile ground for complex metaphors and narrations. Sha…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Heat pumps, in contrast, (to gas or oil furnaces) don’t generate heat. They transfer it. That allows them to achieve more than 300 percent efficiency in some cases. Because they are more efficient, using heat pumps …
UK falls from fourth to 10th place in phase III trials amid ‘ossified’ bureaucracy and stretched health serviceThe state of clinical trials in the NHS is “much worse than it has been in years” with patients losing access to cutting-edge cancer and deme…
National science agency warns of a ‘post-antibiotic world’ in 2050, marked by declines in lifespan, quality of life and livestock productionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBetter coordination is urgently needed …
Germany wants to set up a new power line network to connect its own offshore wind parks with those of its North Sea neighbors in order to eliminate bottlenecks in the European energy market.
COVID likely leaked from a Wuhan lab following Frankenstein-style experiments on humanised mice, a top scientist has warned.
Professor Colin Butler, who probed the origins of the virus for the UN, said the lab leak theory has been majorly downplay…
Dozens of activists are blocking the entrance to Norway’s energy ministry in Oslo to protest a wind farm they say hinders the rights of the Sami indigenous people from raising reindeer in Arctic Norway.
Exclusive: MPs say research system unfit for purpose as mother of boy who died calls for answers on ‘missing millions’Ministers have spent only £15m in five years on research into tackling brain tumours, the biggest killer of adults and children under …