Scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) captured the first confirmed video of a live colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its deep-sea environment. This marks a historic moment, as 2025 is the 100-year anniversary of the species’ discovery.
You’ve seen the video game-inspired bionic hand, now check out the Psyonic Ability Hand. It’s currently the only bionic hand on the market with multi-touch sensory feedback. Sensors in the fingertips (on the thumb, index, and pinky) detect pressure when gripping objects and send vibrations to the user’s residual limb.
This interesting project by Mitxela shows text on an oscilloscope by pretending it’s a sound. The plan is to take words, turn them into a sound wave, and then add audio effects to make cool, eye-catching shapes on the oscilloscope’s screen.
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Colossal Biosciences, a startup working on bringing back animals that disappeared long ago, just announced they’ve “de-extincted” the dire wolf, a big, tough wolf that roamed North America over 12,500 years ago. It went extinct when the world changed and its food ran out. You might know dire wolves from Game of Thrones—they’re the cool, giant wolves in the show.
Researchers from the University of Auckland have captured a video of a real-life Sharktopus, or more specifically, an orange-hued octopus riding on the back of a large shortfin mako shark as it swam. How these two unlikely companions crossed paths remains a mystery. The team observed them for about ten minutes before leaving them to their journey, so we don’t know how their story ended—whether it was a brief hitchhiking stint or something more.
We may be decades away from artificial wombs, but one Australian man was able to leave St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney with a full titanium artificial heart from BiVACOR this past month. Officially called the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH), this device basically replaces both ventricles of the heart, taking over the pumping of blood to the body (systemic circulation) and lungs (pulmonary circulation).
Cortical Labs CL1 is touted as the world’s first biohybrid computer, or more specifically a synthetic biological intelligence machine capable of running on living human brain cells. The world these cells live in is created by the company’s Biological Intelligence Operating System (biOS) running a simulated world and sending information directly to the neurons about their environment.
