Japanese researchers have successfully grown a pair of kidneys in a laboratory. The kidneys have been transplanted into an animal and they have been verified as functioning correctly. This is the first step to growing such organs and transplanting them into a person.
The Overview Effect, a little known psychological phenomenon, alters how those who leave the planet think about it when they return.
From 1951, over four decades, the US government carried out almost a thousand nuclear tests at this test site, earning it the nickname of the “most bombed place on Earth”. Here, they took the crude nuclear weapons that had been dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and honed their destructive power.
All of the original Siri voices worldwide came from a bank of digital voices that were recorded in 2005. I recorded four hours a day, five days a week for a month. The process is called concatenation, and the reason the original Siri was so iconic is because she was the first concatenated voice to actually sound human.
#California, your bright lights invite this morning. #GoodMorning from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/g3zN9TaYUf
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 23, 2015
The world’s most popular English language song is potentially free from copyright after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that filmmakers challenging Warner/Chappell Music’s hold on “Happy Birthday to You” should be granted summary judgment.
The earth is literally leaking its helium into outer space.
That’s the future of most of the world’s helium over the next 100 years, scientists say. Such is the fate of a gas lighter than air — Earth’s gravitational pull just can’t hold it.
Oh, it’s just a continuously updated interconnected database of all the species known to man. The Newick data file is downloadable too.