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Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models

Alexandra Schwartz reports on the rise of end-of-life doulas, a practice whose members include Nicole Kidman and Chloé Zhao.

Tech companies are not modelling their own claims of the technology giving people more free time.

Current donations: $18,712 of $40,000 goal Alan Bellows here, founder of Damn Interesting. For the better part of twenty years, I kept this project afloat by working part-time engineering jobs to pay the bills, and spending the other halves of my work day

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Damn Interesting Podcast: Chile's audacious 1970s-era plan to network and automate the country's entire economy, hindered by political upheaval and CIA maneuvering. Long-time listeners might recognize this story, we did a version of it years ago. The orig

In the village of Bellewstown, about 15 miles north of Dublin, Ireland, they still talk about what Barney Curley did back in 1975. It all happened during a horse race on the Hill of Crockafotha. It was just an amateur jockey race on a lazy summer day in a

A would-be priest's audacious plan to win his money back from the bookmakers

In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for 'four' sounds very similar to the word for 'death'1. Consequently, the number 4 is considered by many people in East Asian nations to be unlucky. It is not unusual for building

Most people think of the "mentally disordered" as a delusional lot, holding bizarre and irrational ideas about themselves and the world around them. Isn't