Can robots ever have a true sense of self? Scientists are making progress

Mar 01, 2019 14:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Having a sense of self lies at the heart of what it means to be human. Without it, we couldnt navigate, interact, empathise or ultimately survive in an ever-changing, complex world of others. We need a sense of self when...

Listening in to brain communications, without surgery

Mar 01, 2019 13:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Plenty of legitimate science plus a whole lot of science fiction discusses ways to hack the brain. What that really means, most of the time even in the fictional examples involves surgery, opening the skull to implant...

Cancer Cure 2019: How Great White Shark Can Lead to Cancer Cure

Feb 27, 2019 09:14 am UTC| Science

Cancer is one of the most harrowing diseases a person can be diagnosed with simply because there is no complete cure found for it yet. However, a recently published research suggests that the usually feared great white...

HIV/AIDS Medication Shows Potential to Treat Age-Related Illnesses Like Alzheimer’s

Feb 27, 2019 09:14 am UTC| Science

While scientists and researchers are still working on finding and developing the complete cure for human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), they discovered another potential drug...

Life quickly finds a way: the surprisingly swift end to evolution's big bang

Feb 19, 2019 16:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

The Cambrian explosion more than 500 million years ago is often considered biologys big bang. Virtually all the major kinds of animals evolved in lifes greatest ever burst of evolution, rapidly populating a weird and...

Cancer Cure 2019: Antibody-Drug Attacking Tumors From the Inside Shows Positive Results on Multiple Patients

Feb 19, 2019 09:07 am UTC| Science

Part of the continuing efforts to find the cure for cancer, a team of researchers has developed an antibody-drug that attacks fatal tumors from the inside. Because of how the drug works, it is being likened to a Trojan...

Is an HIV/AIDS Cure Within Humanity’s Reach?

Feb 19, 2019 09:07 am UTC| Science

The first cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) were identified in the 1980s. Unfortunately, the world has yet to find a cure that will ultimately remove the...