Health

To create mouse-rat "chimeras," researchers injected rat stem cells into mouse embryos that lacked some genes for brain development.

SMART NEWS

Researchers Breed Mice With Hybrid Brains Containing Cells From Rats

Researchers are recruiting some 1,100 people globally to participate in the trial's third phase.

SMART NEWS

Personalized Melanoma Vaccine Could Be a 'Game Changer' by Teaching the Body to Fight Cancer Cells

Doctors perform a pig kidney transplant on April 12. So far, the patient is recovering well, but doctors will need to continue to monitor her in the hospital and make sure her immune system doesn't reject the transplanted organ.

SMART NEWS

Second Patient Receives Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

Environment

A chicken nugget made from cell-cultivated meat. The companies plan to start by selling their product to restaurants. 

SMART NEWS

USDA Approves First Lab-Grown Chicken in the United States

The Neo P1 starts at $179, roughly five to ten times the price of a normal pothos plant.

SMART NEWS

Could Genetically Modified Houseplants Clean the Air in Your Home?

A green crab, Carcinus maenas

SMART NEWS

New Hampshire Distillery Makes Whiskey Out of Invasive Crabs

Education

A new exhibition in Marseille recreates the famous cave and the art found within. 

SMART NEWS

Tour a Submerged Cave Packed With Paleolithic Art—Without Ever Venturing Underwater

Like a regular sail uses wind to navigate across an ocean, solar sails use the pressure exerted by sunlight to move through space. (Pictured: a conceptual illustration of a diffractive solar sail)

SMART NEWS

NASA’s New Solar Sail Could Soon Navigate in Space

A 3D animation created using data from LiDAR shows the urban center of Cotoca.

SCIENCE

Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air