Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, modern organ transplantation has often been linked to the horrors of Frankenstein. While people have grown to accept kidney and liver transplants ...

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A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

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Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

Born on the same day, Bill and Ben both grew up to have high status. But in every other way they were polar opposites.

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

Michelle Fuller is Actually the Andromedan Empress, and She Decides Humanity Deserves to Die The entire time you’re watching Bugonia, you’re watching a conspiracy theorist named Teddy torture a woman ...

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...