A surgeon in the UK lost his medical license after authorities discovered he had branded his initials into two patients' livers using an argon beam machine. The grisly signatures were exposed when another surgeon operated on a failed transplant. Turning this into a story, what if a state coroner discovers a series of messages etched onto transplanted […]
A woman in China went viral with simple videos from her time in lockdown. They included cooking food, doing household chores, and working from home. The kicker? She’s stuck on a blind date that just won’t end. It all started when she went to her date’s house for a home-cooked meal. While she was there, Chinese authorities […]
Manuel was talking with a friend outside a fruit and vegetable shop in Spain when Google Street View snapped a photo of him. Then, he was arrested. In truth, Manuel was the former Italian mafia boss Gioacchino Gammino, on the run for twenty years. The scar on his face gave him away. From the article […]
A paper titled Cause of Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic? puts forth a rather weird conclusion: that comets seeded life on Earth. Published in 2018, it says: “life may have been seeded here on Earth by life-bearing comets as soon as conditions on Earth allowed it to flourish (about or just before 4.1 Billion years ago); and […]
Thirty cancer patients in Spain were offered an experimental cancer treatment. Eighteen are in remission. The treatment is for patients with multiple myeloma, a common form of blood cancer with a 50% survival rate after five years. Typical treatments include bone marrow transplants and chemotherapy. The new treatment involves T-cells from the patients. Scientists alter them […]
The Analogue Pocket promises to be a grown-up Game Boy. The same size as the classic console, it runs the same games on modern tech, most notably an updated screen. It can play games from every single Game Boy variant, and there are plans for adapters for other systems in the future. In short, it’s […]
2021 might go down as the year of “meta.” Facebook changed its name, there’s talk of the metaverse, and now, we have the metasurface. In Neural nano-optics for high-quality lens imaging, published in Nature, researchers describe the metasurface as a combination of the nano-optic surface that interacts with light and a machine-learning algorithm that produces clear images. […]
Xenobots are small blobs created from frog stem cells scientists first created in 2020. They’re not traditional robots—there’s no metal, and they’re tiny. Instead, xenobots are more like programmable organisms and can be used to clean up radioactive waste or plastics in oceans. Scientists already knew that xenobots could move, work in groups, and self-heal. Now, xenobots […]
A café in Tokyo is taking work from home to entirely new levels. Called the “Avatar Robot Café,” it’s filled with robots who are a part of the staff. But, instead of the robots being run by artificial intelligence, the robots are controlled by people with disabilities. The café says its goal is “to create and […]
In 1978, NASA scientist Donald Kessler proposed a scenario where low-Earth orbit becomes so crowded that a series of collisions begins, leading to still more crashes from the resulting debris. Fast forward to 2021, and it’s looking a lot more like this could become a reality. More satellites than ever go into space, most notably Elon Musk’s Starlink […]
