Using Virtual Reality to Save the White Rhino

There are four northern white rhinoceroses left in the world. Will a 360-degree documentary help us preserve them? In the basement of the San Diego Zoo’s laboratory complex sits a four-foot-tall, liquid nitrogen-cooled aluminium canister. This “Frozen Zoo,” as the container is known, contains thousands of skin samples taken from a cornucopia of endangered animals, including those of the northern […]

To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife

How one of the inventors of brain-computer interfaces ended up getting one himself. Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data. That was how one day he came to lie blissfully unconscious on an operating table in Belize while a neurosurgeon sawed off the top of his skull. Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Outlook