It is a horse named Ghost who first signals that something is awry in the sky in Jordan Peele's latest visually and thematically ambitious film Nope. OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) is the head wrangler of Heywood Hollywood Horses, an ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2022
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Stem cell scientists say they have created "synthetic embryos" without using sperm, eggs or fertilization for the first time, but the prospect of using such a technique to grow human organs for transplantation remains distant.
Biotechnology
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Greyhounds in Australia will continue to be impregnated via a procedure that's illegal in other countries, after a provision to ban it was recently overturned in a New South Wales government bill.
Veterinary medicine
Aug 4, 2022
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New research by a team at Queen Mary University of London shows that bumblebees can modify their response to 'noxious' (painful) stimuli in a manner that is viewed in other animals as consistent with the ability to feel pain.
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2022
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A trio of researchers, two from Queen Mary University of London, the other from the University of Tehran, has found evidence that suggests insects might be able to feel pain. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...
Synthetic biology promises far reaching solutions to human concerns, from averting climate catastrophes to medical breakthroughs. But are ethics keeping pace with emerging technology? The case study of engineered Artemisinin, ...
Biotechnology
Jun 6, 2022
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How we speak matters to animals. Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives, as well as from human speech, according to new research in behavioral ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2022
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How and why do incentives elicit unethical behavior?
Economics & Business
May 18, 2022
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Almost every streaming service today has a limited series or documentary that details recent fraud cases that have captivated the world, from Anna Delvey to the Tinder Swindler.
Economics & Business
Apr 7, 2022
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The existence of harassment and discrimination in academia has been well documented across a variety of fields of study. A report from the American Institute of Physics goes beyond the numbers to examine types of harassment ...
Astronomy
Mar 29, 2022
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