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The important thing about Caenorhabditis elegans, also called a roundworm or nematode, is how simple it is. A mouse may be small, but it’s still a mammal, and composed of many billions of cells. Even a fruit fly is a relatively complex organism, and as scientists manipulate its genes they see all kinds of emergent properties arising from the incredible ...

Now that Steam, PSN, and Xbox Live are widespread and feature-rich, it’s easy for some of us to assume that we’re already living in the all-digital future. With super-fast fiber-optic internet connections and huge hard drives, many gamers haven’t touched physical media in years. Sadly, not everyone is so lucky. Within the United States, many of us are stuck with ...

Over the last few decades, we’ve slowly gained the ability to digitally affect the human senses. First, of course, there was smell-o-vision, which releases a combination of chemicals to simulate a specific scent (smoke, chocolate, oranges, etc.) With electrical stimulation of our nerves, we can simulate the sensation of touch. In the last few years, we’ve seen retinal implants that ...

britneyspears via Instagram Done right: Britney Spears as she appears in her “Work, Bitch” video, courtesy of vertical stretching It doesn’t matter what you eat or how much you work out — you’ll never look like a celebrity from a magazine cover or a music video. That’s because you don’t employ a professional retoucher to create that beyond-perfect bod and ...

britneyspears via Instagram Done right: Britney Spears as she appears in her “Work, Bitch” video, courtesy of vertical stretching It doesn’t matter what you eat or how much you work out — you’ll never look like a celebrity from a magazine cover or a music video. That’s because you don’t employ a professional retoucher to create that beyond-perfect bod and ...