Plans are underway to create an ‘artic elephant’ using the DNA of extinct woolly mammoths and modern day Asian-elephants to produce a new species that would be cold-resistant. Harvard Geneticist George Church has launched a company called Colossal where research will focus on trying to “de-extinct genes” of the woolly mammoth which was last seen…
Spotify’s top podcaster Joe Rogan has responded to claims about spreading misinformation amid Neil Young and Joni Mitchell taking down their music from the streaming service. In a nine-minute video posted to Instagram, Rogan commented on the controversy by both defending his podcast and saying that he will take on recommendations to ensure that his…
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake in the Indonesian Banda Sea sent an aftershock throughout Darwin earlier this morning with many locals woken up by shaking beds and windows. Roughly 320km north of Darwin an earthquake struck at a depth of 126 kilometres however the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has said that there is no threat of…