A pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human for the first time
Oct 20th 2021ON OCTOBER 19th, USA Today, an American newspaper, reported that surgeons in New York had successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human subject. The organ was successfully attached for three days in an experimental procedure on a brain-dead patient. The procedure was the culmination of years of work; scientists have dreamed of…
A simple but ingenious mechanism may give wave power a boost
Oct 20th 2021IN A WORLD where new technology is dominated by the movement of electrons and the manipulation of biomolecules, it is good to know that old-fashioned mechanics can sometimes get a look-in, too. Admittedly, electron movement is also involved in the device dreamed up by Wang Zhonglin of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy. But…
A new bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund is many things to many people
Oct 20th 2021CRYPTO SEASONS are not what they used to be. In 2017, just as bitcoin was nearing $20,000 for the first time, a regulatory crackdown triggered a crypto “winter”—a period of depressed prices—that lasted nearly three years. In May this year frost set in after China clamped down on crypto transactions, bringing bitcoin down…
How kidnappers, zealots and rebels are making Nigeria ungovernable
Oct 19th 2021ABUJA, ENUGU AND LAGOSONE EVENING in March Emmanuel was in bed, about to doze off. The next moment, armed men burst into his college dormitory in north-west Nigeria and dragged him and 38 other panicked, half-dressed students outside and deep into a forest. “We were tortured,” says Emmanuel. One bandit would film as…