Every so often, an old scientific paper resurfaces online and takes on a life nobody intended for it. That's exactly what's happening with a decades-old calculation from a little-known Austrian-American physicist — one that pins a very specific date on the collapse of human civilization. And that date, according to the original math, falls in just a few weeks. A Serious … [Read more...] about The Mathematician Who “Predicted” the End of the World — and Why the Date Is Right Around the Corner
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The True Story of the Soviet Scientist Who Tried to Breed a ‘Human-Ape’ Hybrid
In the early 20th Century, long before science fiction popularised fears of genetic experimentation, one Soviet biologist pursued a deeply controversial goal that blurred the line between science and ethics: the creation of a human-ape hybrid. His name was Ilia Ivanov, a Russian zoologist whose work in artificial insemination had already earned him scientific recognition for … [Read more...] about The True Story of the Soviet Scientist Who Tried to Breed a ‘Human-Ape’ Hybrid