646 Results From "grow organs"

MIT artist-in-residence Deimut Strebe mirrored COVID-19's spread across the U.S. with an unsettling slime mold experiment. Here, she explains why.
Science & Energy

An MIT Artist Used Slime Mold to Simulate COVID Spread

The same company that announced a partnership with KFC to create the world's first 3D printed chicken nugget successfully printed human cells in space.
Prosthetics and Devices

The Same Company 3D Printing KFC’s Meat Nuggets Is Printing Human Tissue in Space As Well

The just-launched "Lunar Loo Challenge" tasks amateur rocket scientists to come up with a toilet that can handle near-zero and Moon gravity.
Moon

NASA Says It Needs a New Space Toilet for the Artemis Moon Missions

3D Printed Sugar Scaffolds Could Help Grow Organs, Then Dissolve Away
Science & Energy

3D Printed Sugar Scaffolds Could Help Grow Organs, Then Dissolve Away

The White House's 2021 budget would cripple NASA's ongoing and future Mars missions. It would also mean shutting down the Curiosity rover.
Science & Energy

The White House Is Trying to Shut Down NASA’s Last Mars Rover

Health experts recently warned that the coronavirus 2019-nCoV is more contagious than they originally predicted, and they still don't know how much so.
Viruses

Scientists: The Coronavirus May Be More Contagious Than Thought

There's so much misinformation on the coronavirus pandemic swirling around online that even the famous fact-checking organization Snopes is overwhelmed.
Future Society

Even Snopes Has Been Overwhelmed by Coronavirus Misinformation

Scientists working with DARPA developed a living concrete, teeming with bacteria, that resembles Jell-O. It can grow and regenerate itself when it breaks.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create “Living Concrete” That Can Heal Itself

In an Instagram post, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced he is dedicating $10 billion of his net worth to combat climate change.
Climate Change

Bezos Coughs Up Pathetic 7% of Net Worth to Fight Climate Change

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.
Future Society

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

Scientists found that a single-celled organism could live off of materials from meteorites, which could help in our hunt to find alien life in space.
Science & Energy

Organism That Eats Meteorites Could Help Us Find Alien Life

According to a New Scientist exclusive, the first ever pig that had a small proportion of Its cells derived from a monkey was born in a lab in China.
Developments

First-Ever “Pig-Monkey Chimeras” Born in Chinese Lab

This Virtual Library in Minecraft Gives a Voice to Censored Journalists
Future Society

This Virtual Library in Minecraft Gives a Voice to Censored Journalists

Nine year old Belgian genius Laurent Simons is on track to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering this year. He plans to grow artificial organs.
Science & Energy

A 9-Year-Old Genius Is Getting an Engineering Degree Next Month

A team of researchers in Japan have developed a new way to keep brain tissue from animals alive and viable for up to 25 days.
Brain

Scientists Keep Brain Tissue From Dead Mice Alive For Weeks

Scientists figured out how to breed hornless bulls by editing their genes, providing a painless alternative to horn-removing procedures.
Science & Energy

Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Breed Hornless Bulls

NASA announced a new contest in which contestants are asked to come up with a design for a space garden capable of growing crops.
NASA

New NASA Contest Seeks Way to Grow a Space Garden

Researchers have found a way to coax the bacteria E. coli to produce psilocybin as a byproduct, potentially opening the door to mass production.
Health & Medicine

Researchers Gene-Hacked E. Coli to Produce Psilocybin

New lab-grown mini brains are the most advanced yet, spontaneously forming into neural circuits resembling the cerebral cortex and mirroring brain activity.
Brain

New Lab-Grown Mini Brains Are the Most Advanced Yet

There are a number of disturbing parallels between the coronavirus COVID-19 and the Spanish flu — and leaders seem to have ignored lessons from the past.
Viruses

In the Coronavirus, Historians See Echoes of Past Pandemics