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Your Cortex Contains 17 Billion Computers – The Spike – MediumNeural networks of neural networks

Scientists create functioning kidney tissueScientists have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science.

Scientists have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancerMeet the first of a possible army of cloned monkeys that could treat many diseases, but is this a step to human cloning, and will anyone but China accept them?

Physicists create Star Wars-style 3D projections — just don’t call them hologramsPhysicists project a 3D floating image into thin air — just like science fiction.

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‘Alien’ DNA makes proteins in living cells for the first timeExpanded genetic alphabet could allow for the production of new protein-based drugs.

AP Exclusive: US scientists try 1st gene editing in the body OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Scientists for the first time have tried editing a gene inside the body in a bold attempt to permanently change a person's DNA to cure a disease.

Self-taught AI is best yet at strategy game GoArtificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.

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A quantum pioneer unlocks matter’s hidden secretsPhysicist Gil Lonzarich has sparked a revolution in the study of phase transitions driven by quantum fluctuations.

How the Internet of cells has biologists buzzingNetworks of nanotubes may allow cells to share everything from infections and cancer to dementia-linked proteins.

What the ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence – Douglas Fox | Aeon EssaysThe ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself

If Moroz is right, then the ctenophore represents an evolutionary experiment of stunning proportions, one that has been running for more than half a billion years. This separate pathway of evolution – a sort of Evolution 2.0 – has invented neurons, muscles and other specialised tissues, independently from the rest of the animal kingdom, using different starting materials.

How a polymath transformed our understanding of information – Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni | Aeon EssaysIt took a polymath to pin down the true nature of ‘information’. His answer was both a revelation and a return

CRISPR reveals genetic master switches behind butterfly wing patternsOne gene draws the lines while a second fills in the colours.

IBM Has Used Its Quantum Computer to Simulate a Molecule—Here’s Why That’s Big NewsWe just got a little closer to building a computer that can disrupt a large chunk of the chemistry world, and many other fields besides.

Cassini’s 13 years of stunning Saturn science — in picturesAs the mission speeds towards its conclusion, Nature takes a look at what researchers have learnt about the planet’s moons, rings and tempest-filled skies.

A long journey to reproducible resultsReplicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.

Mysteries of turbulence unravelledSimulations follow how swirls in a fluid transfer and dissipate energy.

Understanding Atmospheric Radiation and the “Greenhouse” Effect – Part Six – The EquationsMany blogs write about over-simplifications of the radiative effects in climate. Many of these blog articles review simple explanations of how it is possible for atmospheric radiative effects to in…