Chris Bryant University of Bath Cultured meat made from animal cells without animal slaughter has been approved for sale for the first time. The approval, granted by the Singapore Food Agency to US food company Eat Just for their cultured “chicken bites”, is a watershed moment for the future of
When the mapping of the human genome was declared complete nearly 20 years ago, pundits hailed it as the dawn of a brave new era of genetic medicine. Well, it took a while, but those breathless claims seem to finally be coming to fruition. The most well-known – and controversial
Mining the asteroid belt for resources – chiefly metals – has long been a staple of science fiction. Both Larry Niven’s “Known Space” novels and James S. A. Corey’s “Expanse” novels and tv series feature a distinct human sub-culture of “Belters” who live and mine the remote rocks of
While Australia and New Zealand slavishly follow the EU’s obsessive focus on “renewables” despite the mathematically incontrovertible fact that they just cannot feasibly replace fossil fuels, some in the US are recalling America’s “can do” spirit – and making next-generation nuclear happen. Five minutes’ scribbling on the back
I’ve been a fairly keen amateur astronomer for much of my life, certainly since my parents gave me my first telescope (a 3” Newtonian reflector) in my pre-teens. So it’s almost a reflex for me to at least glance up at the sky nearly every night (I’
“Trust the science!” is the great conceit of the contemporary left. But – leaving aside that the left are awfully picky about science when it comes to, say, gender ideology – how can we “trust the science” when Australia’s peak science body is so obviously trying to baffle us with bullshit?
We cynics who refuse to subscribe to “progressive” ideology often dismiss leftists as addicted to victim mentality. It turns out that “victim mentality” may well be a very real thing. Two of its key characteristics are moral elitism, coupled with attention-seeking and a lack of empathy. Those who suffer
F. William Engdahl globalresearch.ca Bill Gates is actively financing and promoting new untested vaccines supposed to keep us at least somewhat safe from a ‘ghastly” death from the novel coronavirus and supposedly to allow us to resume somewhat “normal” lives. The Pharma giant Pfizer has now announced what they
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola articles.mercola.com STORY AT-A-GLANCE * According to Dr. Roger Hodkinson, one of Canada’s top pathologists and an expert in virology, the COVID-19 pandemic is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public” * Hodkinson stressed that PCR tests cannot diagnose infection
Simon Black Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com If there were a Mount Rushmore to memorialize the greatest scientists in US history, Richard Feynman’s face would almost certainly be on the monument. He was only 24 years of age when he was recruited into a secret research group that
Commercial fusion generation has been “just around the corner” for almost as long as I can remember. As far back as the late 70s, fusion was a mere 20 years away…and there it’s stayed, always just out of reach. No matter how many “breakthroughs” are announced. So, you’
Cybathlon 2020 was a recent cyborg Olympics in which people with physical disabilities competed using exoskeletons, bionic limbs, and other technology. In one race, competitors with quadriplegia wore scalp sensors that detected their brain waves and allowed them to steer vehicles on the screen. From IEEE Spectrum: Pilots controlled the
Viv Forbes Washpool Qld, Australia Wandering recently through an arcade popular with the green smoothie set, I saw a sign boasting: “Plant Based Meat”. Someone should advise those nutritional dunderheads that all real meat is plant-based. Real beef and lamb are built from live plants like grasses, lucerne and
It sounds like something from a ’50s b-grade science-fiction movie: The Claw from Outer Space! But, in fact, a very real giant claw in orbit around the Earth is being proposed by the European Space Agency. Why not? It’s 2020, after all. Unlike some rampaging alien monster
