Ethical and Societal Questions Loom Large as Gene Editing Moves Closer to the Clinic

JAMA Network | JAMA | Ethical and Societal Questions Loom Large as Gene Editing Moves Closer to the Clinic: "Over the last few decades, researchers have developed innovative techniques for altering genetic sequences. More recently, scientific breakthroughs have greatly reduced the cost and complexity of making highly targeted changes in living cells. There is consensus among experts that these advances could have wide-ranging clinical applications. Although the advances may have the potential to prevent or even cure a variety of diseases when used in adults, children, and even fetuses or gametes, they also raise many important ethical and societal questions."

Biotechnology, synthetic biology keys to humans colonizing other planets

Biotechnology, synthetic biology keys to humans colonizing other planets | Genetic Literacy Project: "Over the last 12,000 years or so, human civilization has noticeably reshaped the Earth’s surface. But changes on our own planet will likely pale in comparison when humans settle on other celestial bodies. While many of the changes on Earth over the centuries have been related to food production, by way of agriculture, changes on other worlds will result, not only from the need for on-site production of food, but also for all other consumables, including air."

Ape-to-human, pig-to-human blood donations: Could xenotransfusions work?

Ape-to-human, pig-to-human blood donations: Could xenotransfusions work? | Genetic Literacy Project: "Would you accept a transfusion of blood products from a chimpanzee or a gorilla?"

The Science of The X-Files: How Global Warming Could Create a Race of Mutant Humans

The Science of The X-Files: How Global Warming Could Create a Race of Mutant Humans: "In the first season X-Files episode, "Jersey Devil," shrinking habitats lead to "missing links" emerging in the human genome, contributing to the rise of a line of feral humanoids, similar to Neanderthals. The notion that an evolutionary mutation could suddenly turn humans into horrifying mutants sounds like science fiction, but according to X-Files science advisor Anne Simon, is an actual possibility"

Take a Peek Into Our “X-Files” — Central Intelligence Agency

Take a Peek Into Our “X-Files” — Central Intelligence Agency: "The CIA declassified hundreds of documents in 1978 detailing the Agency’s investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and 1950s."

Are UFO's responsible for a Mexican volcanic eruption?

Are UFO's responsible for a Mexican volcanic eruption? | Daily Mail Online: "Alien hunters are abuzz with theories after the sighting of what they claim is a UFO passing over a volcano in Mexico."

Jae Rhim Lee's 'mushroom death suit' that could replace a coffin

Jae Rhim Lee's 'mushroom death suit' that could replace a coffin | Daily Mail Online: "The dead are usually buried in a casket or cremated, but a new concept could modernize the way humans deal with death.



Jae Rhim Lee has developed a suit embedded with mushroom spores that speeds up decomposition and neutralizes toxins the human body releases when we die."

Zika Virus has 'explosive pandemic potential' as World Health Organisation urged to act NOW

Zika Virus has 'explosive pandemic potential' as World Health Organisation urged to act NOW  | Daily Mail Online: "Scientists today warned the Zika virus has 'explosive pandemic potential'. The World Health Organisation said the mosquito-borne disease had gone from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions and admitted up to four million people could be infected."

"The End Game Is Here - Its All Coming Apart"

"The End Game Is Here - Its All Coming Apart": "With the global economy now in freefall with almost nothing but the backs of the people of the world to 'break the fall', we take a look at several new videos and stories below that help to prove to us there's no turning back - the end game has begun and the central banks aren't going to be able to kick this can down the road for another year or two. As Andy Hoffman tells us in his interview with Sgt Report in the 1st video below, "it's all coming apart"

Toward the Seamless Integration of the Physical and Virtual Worlds

Innovations: Web of Systems - Research & Management - Pictures of the Future - Innovation - Home - Siemens Global Website: "Whether in factories, rail and traffic management systems, or decentralized power distribution systems, the trend is toward networking individual devices with entire systems – a process that is based on the integration of the physical world with the virtual world of data."

Sergio Canavero who is plotting human HEAD transplants revealed

Sergio Canavero who is plotting human HEAD transplants revealed | Daily Mail Online: "What with ‘designer’ babies and genetic engineering, we have become accustomed to developments that previously would have been banned as ‘Frankenstein science’."

Madness: Olympics to allow pre-op male-to-female ‘transgenders’ to compete as women

Madness: Olympics to allow pre-op male-to-female ‘transgenders’ to compete as women | Fellowship of the Minds: "With the media’s indoctrination of the masses on “transgenders,” some of us jokingly had predicted that “transgenders” soon would compete in the International Olympics. That’s no longer a joke. It’s a reality."

Lockheed Martin reveals ‘spider eye’ system with hundreds of tiny lenses

Lockheed Martin reveals ‘spider eye’ system with hundreds of tiny lenses | Daily Mail Online: "The work is part of a Darpa-funded project dubbed Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance, or 'Spider'."

Egypt unveils rare whale fossil museum to boost tourism

Egypt unveils rare whale fossil museum to boost tourism | Daily Mail Online: "Dozens of fossilized whale bones have emerged from the Wati El Hitan in the Egyptian desert (pictured) and form the centre piece of a new museum that has been opened. Among them is an intact 37 million-year-old skeleton of a legged form of whale that measures more than 65 feet (20 metres) long"

Robots could soon read your mind - and there are no laws against it

Robots could soon read your mind - and there are no laws against it - Mirror Online: "Unlocking devices using 'pass thoughts' and robotic teaching assistants predicted at the World Economic Forum in Davos"

Could this be humanity’s LAST century?

Could this be humanity’s LAST century? | Daily Mail Online: "It won't be war, politics or poverty that eventually wipes out humanity. According to Seth Shostak, our end will come about as a result of designer babies and artificial intelligence."

Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days

BREAKING NEWS: Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days: "SCIENTISTS conducting a mind-bending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider next week hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own…"

Migrant to Sweden Says He’ll ‘Kill 10 People’ And ‘Eat Humans’ During Anti-Western Bus Tirade

VIDEO: Migrant to Sweden Says He’ll ‘Kill 10 People’ And ‘Eat Humans’ During Anti-Western Bus Tirade - Breitbart: "An Afghan man has been filmed (above) on a bus in Sweden ranting against Europeans and threatening to kill innocent civilians and eat human flesh."

Head transplant carried out on monkey, claims maverick surgeon | New Scientist

Head transplant carried out on monkey, claims maverick surgeon | New Scientist: "The plan to perform a human head transplant is on track, says Sergio Canavero, after successful experiments on monkeys and mice"

Oldest Christian monastery in Iraq razed

Only On AP: Oldest Christian monastery in Iraq razed - Yahoo News: "IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group's relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical."

Scientists Find Evidence for Ninth Planet in Solar System

Scientists Find Evidence for Ninth Planet in Solar System: "A planet larger than Earth could be hiding in the cold, dark depths of the solar system. The presence of the planet, which would lie far beyond Pluto, is betrayed by the curious orbits of a handful of distant icy worlds."

The US Military Wants a Chip to Translate Your Brain Activity Into Binary Code

The US Military Wants a Chip to Translate Your Brain Activity Into Binary Code: "It’s been a weird day for weird science. Not long after researchers claimed victory in performing a head transplant on a monkey, the US military’s blue-sky R&D agency announced a completely insane plan to build a chip that would enable the human brain to communicate directly with computers. What is this weird, surreal future?"

Concerns over Zika virus outbreak growing in U.S.

Concerns over Zika virus outbreak growing in U.S. - CBS News: "U.S. health officials are reporting new cases of a mosquito-borne virus linked to birth defects."

In a future brave new world will it be possible to live forever?

In a future brave new world will it be possible to live forever?: "New technology gradually freeing us from societal and even biological constraints"

Petri-dish magic cultivates a modern chimera

Petri-dish magic cultivates a modern chimera - FT.com: "Scientists create organisms that contain the cells of humans and animals"

The Terminator could become REAL: Intelligent AI robots capable of DESTROYING mankind

The Terminator could become REAL: Intelligent AI robots capable of DESTROYING mankind | Science | News | Daily Express: "FREE-THINKING AI robots could end up destroying mankind or even completely change what it means to be human if we let them think for themselves, a scientist has warned."

Animal brought back to life after spending 30 years frozen

Animal brought back to life after spending 30 years frozen - Telegraph: "The waterbears were retrieved from frozen moss sample collected in Antarctica in 1983"

China to land probe on dark side of moon

China to land probe on dark side of moon in 2018: Xinhua - Yahoo News: "SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China plans to land the first probe ever on the dark side of the moon in 2018, marking another milestone in its ambitious space program, the official Xinhua news agency reported."

Nick O'Donoghue snapped Iron Giant image on EasyJet flight to Cork

Nick O'Donoghue snapped Iron Giant image on EasyJet flight to Cork | Daily Mail Online: "An extraordinary picture captured by a plane passenger at 30,000ft shows what looks like a huge robot walking along the clouds.



Some internet users have commented that the figure looks like the robot from the animated movie The Iron Giant."

Mystery of BIONIC GIRL who doesn't eat, sleep or feel pain - even when hit by a CAR

Mystery of BIONIC GIRL who doesn't eat, sleep or feel pain - even when hit by a CAR | UK | News | Daily Express: "Unique Olivia Farnsworth stunned medics when they discovered she has a rare chromosome condition stopping her from feeling hunger, fatigue or pain."

Man uses microchip implanted in hand to pass through airport security

Man uses microchip implanted in hand to pass through airport security - Telegraph: "No boarding pass required for Andreas Sjöström, who becomes the first person to use new microchip technology to breeze through an airport"

Woman faces year in jail for tagging former in-law on Facebook

Woman faces year in jail for tagging former in-law on Facebook | New York Post: "Facebook users, beware: That tag you’re about to ­apply to a post may be used against you in court."

New hormone 'extends lifespan by 40% by protecting the immune system'

New hormone 'extends lifespan by 40% by protecting the immune system'  | Daily Mail Online: "A team at Yale School of Medicine have identified a hormone, produced by the thymus glad, extends lifespan by 40 per cent."

Paper says governments need to prepare for catastrophes like Yellowstone eruption

Paper says governments need to prepare for catastrophes like Yellowstone eruption | Montana News | billingsgazette.com: "It’s long been known that if the Yellowstone supervolcano were to erupt at full force the loss of life would be substantial and the effects on the world’s climate would be disastrous — water sources would be fouled, crops would fail, many people would die directly and indirectly."

NORTH KOREA SAYS NUCLEAR TEST SHOWS IT COULD 'WIPE OUT' US

News from The Associated Press: "UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea's U.N. mission claimed Wednesday that its successful nuclear bomb test showed that it could now "wipe out" the United States, as the U.N. Security Council grappled with a response to the underground blast."

Inside the world of a self-proclaimed vampire who drinks her boyfriend's BLOOD

Inside the world of a self-proclaimed vampire who drinks her boyfriend's BLOOD | Daily Mail Online: "A make-up artist and self-proclaimed vampire says she drinks human blood directly from the wound of her partner every week as she 'loves the metallic taste and texture.'"

IVF: First genetically-modified human embryos 'could be created in Britain within weeks'

IVF: First genetically-modified human embryos 'could be created in Britain within weeks' | Science | News | The Independent: "Scientists are about to learn whether their research proposal has been approved by the fertility watchdog"

Forget fingerprints, Wi-Fi ROUTERS could soon help police solve crimes

Forget fingerprints, Wi-Fi ROUTERS could soon help police solve crimes | Daily Mail Online: "Fingerprints and DNA are key evidence in identifying criminals, but crime scene investigators of the future may add Wi-fi to their toolkit for tracking down lawbreakers."

The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’

The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ - The Washington Post: "FRESNO, Calif. — While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect’s potential for violence the way a bank might run a credit report."

Human-Animal Chimera

Human-Animal Chimera | MIT Technology Review: "The effort to incubate organs in farm animals is ethically charged because it involves adding human cells to animal embryos in ways that could blur the line between species."

Your Neanderthal DNA may help you fight disease, and give you allergies

Your Neanderthal DNA may help you fight disease, and give you allergies - LA Times: "About 2% of the DNA in most people alive today came from trysts between ancient humans and their Neanderthal neighbors tens of thousands of years ago, recent studies have shown. Now, scientists are trying to determine what, if any, impact that Neanderthal genetic legacy has on our contemporary lives."

Researcher reveals scheme to create and control gravitational fields

Researcher reveals scheme to create and control gravitational fields | Daily Mail Online: "Creating artificial gravitational fields that humans can manipulate and observe may seem like an idea from science fiction, but one researcher is now looking to turn the concept into a reality.

 

André Füzfa from the University of Namur has proposed a method that would allow humans to control gravity, and says it’s achievable with current technologies."

US military funds research into lab-grown testicles for wounded soldiers

US military funds research into lab-grown testicles for wounded soldiers - Telegraph: "Hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have injuries that make it difficult or impossible to conceive children"

New wave in tech: hacking the brain

New wave in tech: hacking the brain - Yahoo News: "The "mind control" headband unveiled by startup BrainCo effectively hacks into brain signals with a range of possible applications -- from helping to improve attention spans, to detecting disease, controlling smart home appliances or even a prosthetic device."

How ISIS is developing driver-free vehicles for bomb attacks in the West

How ISIS is developing driver-free vehicles for bomb attacks in the West | Daily Mail Online: "ISIS is developing driver-free cars in a bid to carry out spectacular attacks against the West, it has emerged.

Scientists and ballistics experts have been employed by the terror group to create sophisticated new weapons intended to bring bloodshed to Europe."

Experts Warn Unprecedented Catastrophe Underway Near Los Angeles

Experts Warn Unprecedented Catastrophe Underway Near Los Angeles: "The story over at ENENews tells us about the largest gas leak ever recorded, equivalent to the strength of a volcanic eruption, and according to one expert, "It's so far above and beyond what I've ever seen." Telling us that what we're now watching unfolding in Los Angeles (with barely a peep from the mainstream media!!!) is 'potentially devastating on a planetary scale', we're also told we're watching a disaster unfolding in slow motion that may take up to 4 months or more to stop and is leaving thousands of Californians suffering nosebleeds and vomiting according to this story."

UFO snapped over Dubai by former air force contractor just hours before towering inferno

UFO snapped over Dubai by former air force contractor just hours before towering inferno | Science | News | Daily Express: "A STUNNED former air force contractor said a Unidentified flying object (UFO) was hovering in the skies above Dubai just hours before the New Year's Eve towering inferno in a luxury hotel."

Could bizarre skulls with 'non-human' DNA be proof of aliens on Earth?

Could bizarre skulls with 'non-human' DNA be proof of aliens on Earth? | Science | News | Daily Express: "CLAIMS that bizarre skulls with elongated craniums that were dug up in complex burial chambers could be the remains of aliens are causing a store among conspiracy theorists."

Yellowstone about to blow? 1 in 10 chance super-volcano will 'kill millions'

Yellowstone about to blow? 1 in 10 chance super-volcano will 'kill millions' | Science | News | Daily Express: "SCIENTISTS have warned the world is in "volcano season" and there is up to a 10% chance of an eruption soon killing millions of people and devastating the planet."

"Military age men" at San Diego's southern border

"Military age men" at San Diego's southern border | San Diego Reader: ""Credible threat" posed by unknown Afghans and Pakistanis"

North Korea tests Hydrogen Bomb

Big earthquake detected near North Korean nuclear site: Reports: "North Korea tested a hydrogen nuclear bomb on Wednesday, state news agency KCNA reported, marking the politically isolated country's first nuclear test in three years, a move that was condemned by the U.S., Britain and Japan, among others."

Could a mind reading computer let us speak telepathically?

Could a mind reading computer let us speak telepathically? | Daily Mail Online: "A 'mind-reading' device that can decipher words from brainwaves without them being spoken has been developed by Japanese scientists, raising the prospect of 'telepathic' communication.



Researchers have found the electrical activity in the brain is the same when words are spoken and when they are left unsaid."

Biblical Archaeology’s Top Ten Discoveries of 2015

Biblical Archaeology’s Top Ten Discoveries of 2015 | Christianity Today: "Archaeological discoveries made public in 2015 have given us new information about biblical events and people."

This humanoid robot is eerily lifelike

This humanoid robot is eerily lifelike: "Meet Nadine, a robot designed to look as human-like as possible and based on its creator at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore."

Large Hadron Collider discovers 'mega particle that could hold key to other dimensions'

Large Hadron Collider discovers 'mega particle that could hold key to other dimensions' | Science | News | Daily Express: "SCIENTISTS believe they have discovered a new "game changing" particle through the bizarre experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LCH)."

Data vs Theory: The Mathematical Battle for the Soul of Physics

Data vs Theory: The Mathematical Battle for the Soul of Physics | David H. Bailey: "The battle pits leading figures of string theory and the multiverse on one hand, against skeptics who argue that physics is parting ways with principles of empirical testability and falsifiability that have been the hallmarks of scientific research for at least a century."

What are UFOs? New Study Aims to Find Out

What are UFOs? New Study Aims to Find Out: "A new science project launched in 2015 with a lofty goal: to record data on reported sightings of "Unidentified Flying Objects" (or UFOs) in the hopes of identifying what they are."

ISIS secret plot world masterplan 2016 final battle

ISIS secret plot world masterplan 2016 final battle | World | News | Daily Express: "ISIS is planning to massacre thousands of civilians in public places around the world in 2016 as it desperately seeks to draw the west into a titanic "final battle"."

Scientists in Italy rediscover snake that was used by ancient Greeks as a weapon of war

Scientists in Italy rediscover snake that was used by ancient Greeks as a weapon of war - Telegraph: "Greek navy would hurl snakes such as the Javelin Sand Boa at enemy ships, experts say"