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Three years ago the Jurassic Park franchise returned with a new story set 22 years after the events of the original film. Jurassic World revealed what Richard Attenborough’s John Hammond had envisioned before everything went wrong – a theme park with real-life dinosaurs. But it wouldn’t be a Jurassic Park movie without the prehistoric beasts […]
Enlarge (credit: York Museums Trust staff) A thousand years ago, gigantic 12-foot-tall flightless birds roamed New Zealand, snacking peacefully on plants and fungi. Then humans came along. Within two hundred years, the giant moa—along with a host of their close cousins—were dead at our species’ hands. What did the world of the moa look like? […]
Did you know there was a Spider-Man 2 deleted scene where J. Jonah Jameson put on the Spidey suit? Will we ever see a crossover between Marvel Comics and DC Comics again? What will The Joker‘s real name be in Batman: White Knight? Which iconic 1980s vehicle will be appearing in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow […]
It’s no longer far-fetched to synthesize a basic organism. However, a team of researchers has taken that work one step further. They recently reconstituted and reanimated an extinct virus, horsepox, using DNA they’d ordered via mail. The team stitched together multiple gene fragments (each with about 30,000 base pairs) into the complete 212,000-pair horsepox genome […]
Reuters In 1695, Edmond Halley discovered that eclipses recorded in ancient history did not match calculations for the times or places of those eclipses. Starting with records of eclipses in his day and the observed motion of the moon and sun, he used Isaac Newton’s new theory of universal gravitation (1687) to calculate when and […]
Enlarge / Mammoths. (credit: National Park Service) Modern biology has developed a number of technologies—stem cells, genome editing, and more—that have largely drawn attention due to their potential use in medicine. But these techniques also raise an exciting possibility: we might be able to bring species back from the dead. “De-extinction” raises the prospects of […]
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Matthew DeBord/BI Technology is changing the way we drive. This is a story we’re told seemingly every day. The main characters are Tesla, Uber, Lyft, and lately, even the major automakers, who are pushing the envelope on electric cars and autonomous vehicles. The plot goes like this: In a few decades, driving a car will […]
