Ten connected miniature organs are best human-on-a-chip yet
21 March 2018
Ten miniature organs have been connected together to create the closest we’ve come yet to a human-on-a-chip – a system that may one day replace animal testing
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Stephen Hawking was a brilliant ambassador for science
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The death of Stephen Hawking has not just deprived the world of a great scientist, it has deprived science of an effective ambassador to the non-scientific world
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The universe may end in a collision with a bubble of nothingness
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The most precise calculation of the lifetime of our universe finds that a bubble of vacuum energy made by the Higgs boson could envelop us all in 10139 years
An Uber self-driving car has killed a pedestrian in Arizona
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An Uber self-driving car has crashed into a 49-year-old woman in Arizona. This is the first time a car in autonomous mode has killed a pedestrian
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