Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

(1) You have been invited to sit at the periodic table. Among those mythological figures, and the elements named after them, are the 12 titans (titanium), Prometheus (promethium) and Thor (thorium). The Nobel prizewinners and their element namesakes include Ernest Rutherford (rutherfordium), Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie (curium) and Albert Einstein (einsteinium). The “noble types”…

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De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn’t live up to the hype

Colossal’s so-called dire wolf Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first and only de-extinction company”, generated a lot of headlines this year. The hype, however, bore little relation to reality. First, the US-based firm made a splash with woolly mice “engineered to express multiple key mammoth-like traits”. Victoria Herridge at the University…

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New Cell Transplant Therapy Restores Insulin Production in Patient with Type 1 Diabetes

December 12, 2025 Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Cell Transplant Therapy Offers New Hope for Type 1 Diabetes Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited insulin-producing cells into a man with type 1 diabetes—allowing him to make some of his own insulin without immunosuppressants. By Carin Leong edited by Kelso Harper This video is part of “Innovations…

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