Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully transplanted a lab-grown kidney into a mouse that filters blood and urine, albeit at a fraction of a natural kidney’s functionality.
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Modern cosmology, the understanding of our origin and evolution, can give us the understanding that we’re all in this together.
3-D printers are currently capable of producing usable car parts, cat-scanned reproductions of ancient Sumerian clay envelopes with letters inside, and cool-looking geometric desktop toys. That’s very exciting indeed. But […]
The race to build the world’s first 3D-printed house is on. Italian civil engineer Enrico Dini (the subject of an upcoming documentary called “The Man Who Prints Houses”) has plans to print […]
Researchers turned to an old Balkan folk remedy to create synthetic surfaces that employ tiny hair-like fibers to trap the insects.
In the multiplayer game League of Legends, players who use abusive language can see their words used against them in a court of their peers. The technology behind this jury can be applied to other online communities.
By some accounts, last year’s move of the Barnes Foundation from its original home to the new location on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway marked the last stroke in the fall […]
Should water be treated as a commodity today when we are faced with many shortages? The flipside of the question is that we are now looking at even the United […]
The afterlife, in the words of Tennyson [1], is “that untravell’d world whose margin fades / For ever and forever when I move”. Death is the ultimate one-way trip, its […]
Jack Hidary argues that bonuses should be structured to incentivize innovation, rather than just fulfilling day-to-day activities.
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In traditional Sufism, a seeker would find a teacher and study under him for a number of years in a particular order, or turuq. During that time the seeker would […]
A little bit of philosophy can be a dangerous thing.
A team of American and Italian scientists have found the biology of the human brain to be distinct from that of rhesus monkeys, thought to be our closest evolutionary ancestor.
Historians believe that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, making today his 449th birthday. He also died on this date in 1616. And so Shakespeare is the subject of today’s Mind Memes.
The people who think that it is a choice to be gay think that it is a bad choice. It isn’t.
Here’s a good article that offers six explanations for why “median-income men in America” are “in distress.” Their incomes are dropping. Lots of “prime-age men” have been “dropping out of […]
“Society 2.0” — the label writer Richard Hollingham gives to future space colonies — will probably be a lot messier and more complicated than what’s been modeled via the “Star Trek” franchise.
When the only grandfather I ever knew came to this country from Germany he went to work in a glass factory. And I remember him sitting on the front porch […]
You cannot prevent weapons by preventing technologies. We just have to use them carefully, particularly the power of genetics.
Putting children on drugs does nothing to change the conditions that derail their development in the first place.
The United States still has problems to resolve, but it is on a stronger economic footing than before the crisis.
To Orthodox Jews, eruvin are a crucial component to their faith. To everybody else, it is as if they didn’t even exist
You’ve undoubtedly heard the maxim “Life finds a way.” Well, if life has indeed found a way on one of the other trillions of planets in our Milky Way Galaxy, it would likely not be our way.
“[T]he Gothic era,” Bruno Klein writes in the introduction to Gothic: Visual Art of the Middle Ages, 1140-1500, “was a time of seeing, in which much was discussed in words, […]
While scientists are far from being able to regenerate humans limbs, they are gaining a better understanding of how this complex process takes place in a host of different species.
What if you could deliver your product to your customer the moment it was manufactured? What if your customers could manufacture a replacement part whenever they need one? What if […]
Last November, I published an article here on BigThink called, The Apocalypse May Already Be Here, or “Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark,” where I shared some of my […]
Scientists at Virginia Tech have created imaging software that captures biological structures, such as viruses, at the nanoscale, creating new hope for treatment against deadly diseases.
Forced compromise is not enough: in order to reinvigorate our economy and change the trajectory of our unsustainable budget, America needs to confront fundamental flaws in its investment tax policies […]
The federal government is preparing to put $3 billion dollars into researching the human brain, which over the last decade has become the final frontier of terrestrial science.