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Spaceflight accelerates the aging of human blood-forming stem cells

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International Space Station has ...
Space.com

AI designs 50 gravitational wave detectors that could outperform human-made ones

"We are in an era where machines can discover new super-human solutions in science, and the task of humans is to understand what the machine has done." Scientists announced they have developed an ...

HUMAN : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The ...
The Boston Globe

Celebrating women scientists who furthered knowledge of the cosmos; Harvard psychologist advocates for a ‘mindful body’; poetry collection explores death and its aftermath

“What we don’t see, we assume can’t be. What a destructive assumption,” writes Octavia Butler. The quote serves as apt epigraph to Shohini Ghose’s engaging new book, “Her Space, Her Time: How ...
New Scientist

Is the human brain really the most complex object in the universe?

BACK in 2012, neuroscientist Christof Koch wrote in his book Consciousness: Confessions of a romantic reductionist that the human brain is “the most complex object in the known universe”. Given that ...