Science

Synthetic diamonds may have just gotten way easier to make
Scientists in South Korea have developed a new technique for creating synthetic diamonds that works under ambient pressure.
What hybrid mouse/rat brains are showing us about the mind
Modified mice with hybrid brains that include rat neurons could one day lead to new breakthroughs in neuroscience.
With inspiration from “Tetris,” MIT researchers develop a better radiation detector
A new detector system based on the game “Tetris” could enable inexpensive, accurate radiation detectors for monitoring nuclear sites.
Researchers have built a mini-lab for mini-brains
Watch Japan’s latest robot painter in action
Scientists brought to life 100-million-year-old bacteria
Researchers have grown a mouse embryo in a bottle
Neanderthals had the capacity for human communication
Fuel tests to begin for world’s largest fusion reactor
After 360,000 years, extinct cave bear's DNA is still readable
Meet the chess AI you might actually beat
A virus invisibility cloak makes AAV gene therapy safer
Scientists use CRISPR to create neanderthal mini-brains in a lab