AdvertisementAdvertisementIt took more than a year for Deok-Ho Kim, a biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, to prepare for one monthlong experiment. Kim studies health, working toward developing therapeutics to counter . For his experiment, his team developed a leakproof tissue chamber the size of a smartphone and a remote magnet monitor to measure the beating of their experiment’s heart tissues. And then right before the start of his experiment, Kim sent his experiment away to be conducted by strangers he had never met, in a place he had never set foot.AdvertisementIt would take...…AdvertisementAdvertisementIt took more than a year for Deok-Ho Kim, a biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, to prepare for one monthlong experiment. Kim studies health, working toward developing therapeutics to counter . For his experiment, his team developed a leakproof tissue chamber the size of a smartphone and a remote magnet monitor to measure the beating of their experiment’s heart tissues. And then right before the start of his experiment, Kim sent his experiment away to be conducted by strangers he had never met, in a place he had never set foot.AdvertisementIt would take...WW…

December 2, 2020As anyone who has experienced middle age will know, the process of growingold can be extremely hard on the body. Your ,your ,the ,and .affect how you move about the world, whileimpair how you see it. andeventually set in as people approach theend of their lives.These ,however, can also be caused by something less common: .Spaceflight influences biology in dramatic ways, and people in space appearto experience the effects of aging faster than people on Earth. Now, scientistshave gained a better understanding of space travel’s influence on livingbeings than ever before. A...…December 2, 2020As anyone who has experienced middle age will know, the process of growingold can be extremely hard on the body. Your ,your ,the ,and .affect how you move about the world, whileimpair how you see it. andeventually set in as people approach theend of their lives.These ,however, can also be caused by something less common: .Spaceflight influences biology in dramatic ways, and people in space appearto experience the effects of aging faster than people on Earth. Now, scientistshave gained a better understanding of space travel’s influence on livingbeings than ever before. A...WW…

What if your digital assistant could battle rap? That may sound far-fetched, but Gil Weinberg, a at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has adapted a musical robot called to compose lyrics and perform in real time. That means it can engage in rap “conversations” with humans, and maybe even help them compose their own lyrics. Shimon, which was intentionally designed to sound machinelike (), is meant to be a one-of-a-kind musical collaborator—or an inhuman rap-battle opponent.Computer-generated music dates back to the , when early computers used algorithms to compose melodies. Modern robots...…What if your digital assistant could battle rap? That may sound far-fetched, but Gil Weinberg, a at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has adapted a musical robot called to compose lyrics and perform in real time. That means it can engage in rap “conversations” with humans, and maybe even help them compose their own lyrics. Shimon, which was intentionally designed to sound machinelike (), is meant to be a one-of-a-kind musical collaborator—or an inhuman rap-battle opponent.Computer-generated music dates back to the , when early computers used algorithms to compose melodies. Modern robots...WW…

One theory for how life emerged suggests that it originated in the sea, at . It's impossible to observe life-in-the-making in hydrothermal vents nowadays, though, as the seabed in the billions of years since. Instead, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recreated early Earth’s deep-sea conditions in their lab to experimentally verify this theory. , led by Lauren White, has built a reactor that mimics early Earth’s geological processes at the bottom of the ocean. By mixing CO2 and hydrogen-rich fluids — proxies for and alkaline hydrothermal spew — across a...…One theory for how life emerged suggests that it originated in the sea, at . It's impossible to observe life-in-the-making in hydrothermal vents nowadays, though, as the seabed in the billions of years since. Instead, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recreated early Earth’s deep-sea conditions in their lab to experimentally verify this theory. , led by Lauren White, has built a reactor that mimics early Earth’s geological processes at the bottom of the ocean. By mixing CO2 and hydrogen-rich fluids — proxies for and alkaline hydrothermal spew — across a...WW…