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This week, researchers convened in Manchester, UK, to debate whether research into potentially dangerous "mirror life" should be halted.

Scientists Debate Whether to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

New research demonstrates how the first proteins could've formed without the help of biological processes.

Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are already for research into synthetic "mirror" lifeforms to be banned outright in order to save humanity.

Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind

By Frank Landymore

A bombshell report revealed a bacteria whose genetic code is said to be more efficient than any other lifeform on earth.

Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

Scientists have found new evidence that Ozempic can slow or even reverse aging — yet another health benefit of the popular jab.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Find Evidence That Ozempic Can Reverse Aging

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have designed a robot module that "consume" other robots to sustain itself and build bigger robots.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself

By Frank Landymore

In an executive order geared towards denying transgender rights, President Donald Trump seems to have made a huge mistake about biology.

Trump Appears to Have Accidentally Declared That Every Person in America Is Now Female

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an experiment that simulated random for millions of generations, researchers say they witnessed the emergence of digital "organisms."

Google Researchers Say They Simulated the Emergence of Life

By Frank Landymore

A dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently isn't weird enough as is.

Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A team of German scientists has discovered a parasitic tapeworm that can allow a certain species of ants to live way longer when infected.

Terrifying Parasite Can Actually Triple an Ant’s Lifespan

By Sharon Adarlo

Chinese astronauts claim they have grown stem cells for human blood in space, in an achievement they say is the first of its kind.

Chinese Astronauts Grow Human Blood Cells in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

A beluga whale, suspected of being a "Russian Spy," was seen far from home and experts say he may be looking for friends or a mate.

Suspected Russian Spy Whale Reappears, Possibly Lonely and Wanting Love

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists built a brain monitor that can be deployed through a tiny hole in the cranium and unfold like a flower between bone and brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes

By Sharon Adarlo

Florida authorities say the Giant African Land Snail carries rat lungworm, a deadly parasite that causes meningitis. Around 2,000 snails have been found.

Giant Snails Invading Florida Carrying Dangerous Parasite, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Japanese scientists say cultured human muscle cells can stay swole with their bear serum injection. Bears hibernate without losing muscle, unlike humans.

Scientists Supercharge Human Muscle Cells By Injecting Them With “Bear Serum”

By Lonnie Lee Hood