Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed, leaving Pong-like traces on a monitor. The reason to watch this rodent so carefully? Nearly half its brain volume had been replaced with human cells. The effort to mix the brain tissues of distant species is…
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, “You Can See Everything,” stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.
We spend our lives trying to become everything we’re capable of becoming. But the problem with “full potential” is that we’ve already decided what full looks like, and in doing so, we may be creating the very ceiling we’re trying to break through.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of hydrogen gas, which could provide a valuable source of zero-carbon fuel. The hunt has…
Why is longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store? Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Schiller’s decision — he will remain involved in the company as an Apple Fellow working on unspecified projects — was driven in part by a desire to spend more time with […]