— Billy Wright SCIENTISTS STUDYING MICROSCOPIC LIFE IN SEAWATER have found, what we laypeople might call, a tiny floating eyeball. Just as with our own eyes, the creature is fitted with a lens, cornea and retina. But what’s remarkable is that it’s all inside the one cell. Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC) had … Continue reading
“A PORTION OF HONEYBEE BRAIN has been digitally reconstructed by a team of researchers, and it is flying a quadcopter across rooms. With nothing but the cognition of this buzzy brain intelligence, the drone is able to recognise checkerboard patterns on the wall and it can autonomously travel across the room and land gently on the ground.” Continue reading
— Billy Wright HUMANS ALLURED by the dreams of an android. Or at least, by the visions of image-recognition software with an artificial neurology. They’ve been shared rampant across the internet, you may have noticed: photographs of once people now becoloured with a psychedelic rash, their eyebrows shorn but with new eyes sprouting from the … Continue reading
