Brain Teasers

Scientists Create Embryos From Stem Cells Without Egg or Sperm

In a big breakthrough, scientists have created embryo-like structures in the lab from stem cells, without using sperm or eggs. To achieve this, researchers combined two different kinds of stem cells from mice in a…

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Plastic Pollution: Record Concentration of Microplastic Found in Arctic Sea Ice

Plastic pollution in the Arctic region has reached new heights. A study from researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany found an unprecedented number of plastic fragments, measuring from a few micrometers to…

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Devel Sixteen: 5000-Bhp Supercar Giving Amazing Performance

Can a car really handle 5,000 brake horsepower (bhp) without getting ripped in half? Let’s take a look at the Devel Sixteen. The Devel Sixteen is a supercar built in Dubai. It was unveiled at…

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MIT Researchers Create Mind-Reading Headset, Sort of …

MIT researchers have invented a new computer interface that allows you to talk to computers without speaking and listen to them without using your ears — at least, not in the usual way. Known as…

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Nectome: Startup Wants to Capture Your Memories

It sounds like a premise from the show Black Mirror, a series on Netflix that eerily depicts the darker side of technology – unforeseen consequences of having too much control, seeing too much, looking too…

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Range Rover Sport PHEV Climbs 999-Step Staircase to Heaven’s Gate

Heaven’s Gate is a stunning tourist attraction in China’s Hunan province. To get there one has to climb 999 deadly steep stairs at a 45 degree angle. The road that leads to the staircase is…

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Cloned Monkeys in China Raise Fears of Human Cloning

Scientists have broken the technical barrier in human cloning by creating the world’s first cloned monkeys with the technique used to clone Dolly the sheep. After the cloning of Dolly in 1996, scientists cloned several…

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SpaceX Rocket Falcon Heavy Lights 27 Engines Before Launch

Preparing for today’s launch, Elon Musk’s SpaceX recently conducted a key test of its new rocket – the Falcon Heavy. All 27 Merlin engines of the rocket were fired up to make sure they are…

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James Webb Space Telescope Will Surpass Hubble

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the highly anticipated successor to Hubble that took decades to build, completed the last major testing milestones before its final launch in 2019. The telescope successfully completed cryogenic vacuum…

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AlphaZero Learns Chess, Checkmates Grandmaster

Progress in AI has been astonishing. Now, robots are not merely carrying out orders, but are also doing complex tasks that have traditionally been the sole domain of humans. Perhaps one day these machines might…

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