This week on an audio-only New World Next Week: AI predicts the future of human rights trials; nonsense paper accepted for academic conference; and the bard gets a coauthor.
Inventor dude turns bad algae into good foam; Thai researchers found cancer-killers in a latex plant; and Kansas slowly steps away from the drug war.
Inventor dude turns bad algae into good foam; Thai researchers found cancer-killers in a latex plant; and Kansas slowly steps away from the drug war.
British researcher Madeleine Lancaster is growing human brains in her Cambridge University lab. A few hundred of them, in fact. That’s about 2 million neurons. [1]
No, this isn’t a Halloween gag. This sci-fi experiment is intended to help scientists understand disorders like autism and schizophrenia.
It’s not just Lancaster who is invested in growing human brains outside of the body. It’s a project being undertaken by scientists around the world.
A striking new study published in JAMA Psychiatry links hormonal contraceptives to depression, especially in teenage girls.
The findings aren’t surprising to many women.
A professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and lead supervisor of the study, Dr. Øjvind Lidegaard said:
This week on the New World Next Week: the green Chicken Littles continue with their enviro doom porn; a Newsweek journo is caught fingering US intel in Putin-Trump conspiracy story; and Americans fear everything.
This week on the New World Next Week: the green Chicken Littles continue with their enviro doom porn; a Newsweek journo is caught fingering US intel in Putin-Trump conspiracy story; and Americans fear everything.
People who have a high body mass index (BMI), excess weight circumference, and Type 2 diabetes have a greater risk of developing liver cancer, a large new study finds. [1]
One expert in the United Kingdom (U.K.) is even calling for a shift in attitude so that obesity is seen as a red flag for having an increased risk of liver cancer.
Who wants to live forever? Well, you can’t. Not yet, anyway. Science hasn’t reached that point. And according to researchers, humans can only live so long, and our species has just about reached its biological limit.
Cops wearing cameras catch a case of "contagious accountability"; More towns are telling cops to stop busting pot; and the people pushed back the Feds on the kratom ban.
