Goodbye Meatbags
The Girl Who Would Live Forever
The story of the youngest person ever to be cryonically frozen, and the widening allure of the human-freezing industry.
Early Body-Hacking: When Men Got Goat Testicle Grafts to Boost Their Sex Drive
The 1920s saw a trend for animal gland grafts to improve sex drive and ward off aging.
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The Man Building Robots to Better Understand Humans
"We’re not so serious about the differences between humans and robots.”
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Germline engineering could lead to designer babies and superstrength
Using CRISPR-Cas9 to edit genes is controversial but exciting
Should Our Brains Count as Courtroom Evidence?
Judges in the future could tap straight into criminal brains and nip second offenders before they’ve had a chance to do it again, says the Obama administration.
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This Drone Has Artificial Intelligence Modelled on Honey Bee Brains
Forget merging man and machine, these researchers are fusing bee and drone.
Humans Have Been Hacking Their Bodies for Thousands of Years
From lion men to medieval wingsuits, we've long tried to ditch our meatbags.