Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Hollywood icon who starred in Psycho after Hitchcock dubbed her'my new Grace Kelly' looks incredible at 95 Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Tucker Carlson erupts at Trump adviser as she hurls'SLANDER' claim linking him to synagogue shooting Ben Affleck'scores $600m deal' with Netflix to sell his AI film start-up Long hair over 45 is ageing and try-hard. I've finally cut mine off. Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' How your FINGER LENGTH could reveal your sexuality: Study finds women with more'male' hands are more likely to be lesbian - while men with more'female' hands tend to be gay Your hands could divulge your sexuality, a new study has revealed. Scientists have revealed a simple trick to indicate whether you're more likely to be straight or homosexual. It involves the second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D ratio), which is the relative difference between your index and ring fingers.

It might sound like a far-fetched plot from dystopian science fiction, but novel research could soon allow parents to grow their baby in a bag. Just like the 2023 film The Pod Generation, artificial wombs could support an infant from conception to birth without any need for pregnancy. Although most of the population remains sceptical of this revolutionary change to motherhood, Gen Z seems ready to embrace the technology with open arms. In a survey conducted by religious issues think tank, Theos, 42 per cent of people aged 18-24 said they would support'growing a foetus entirely outside of a woman's body'. In the first large-scale survey of its kind, as part of its Motherhood vs The Machine podcast, Theos asked 2,292 people for their views on artificial wombs.

Every person's unique facial features may have been influenced by what their mother ate during pregnancy, a study found - with protein-rich diets leading to wider noses and jaws. Subtle differences in the way people look, from the shape of their skull to the amount of cartilage in their nose, are created in the womb by genes triggered by nutrition. The more protein that is consumed during pregnancy, the more active these genes, known as'mTORC1', become. Researchers say this can'fine-tune' a baby's facial appearance by tweaking the length of the nose and width of the nostrils, the shape of the cheeks and the prominence of the jaw. While the basic appearance of a human face is determined by the parent's genes, siblings often look quite different, and even'identical' twins are never quite the same.

If you're an expectant mother, chatting as much as possible could give your baby a headstart when it comes to learning to talk. That's because new research has found your unborn son or daughter will start learning the language you speak before they're even born. In experiments, researchers discovered heightened activity in the brains of newborns when they heard the language they were exposed to most often in utero. The study didn't look at exactly when babies become receptive to spoken language while they are still in the womb, although it's well known that a foetus starts hearing sounds in the later stages of the second trimester and the start of the third. Therefore, expectant mothers – and fathers too – should not be afraid to chat away, and even talk directly to their baby bump.

In a search for novel forms of longevity medicine, a biotech company based in Israel says it intends to create embryo-stage versions of people in order to harvest tissues for use in transplant treatments. The company, Renewal Bio, is pursuing recent advances in stem-cell technology and artificial wombs, demonstrated by Jacob Hanna, a biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Earlier this week, Hanna showed that starting with mouse stem cells, his lab could form highly realistic-looking mouse embryos and keep them growing in a mechanical womb for several days until they developed beating hearts, flowing blood, and cranial folds. It's the first time such an advanced embryo has been mimicked without sperm, eggs, or even a uterus. Now Hanna has set his sights on extending the technology to humans--he's already experimenting with human cells and hopes to eventually produce artificial models of human embryos.

Babies born outside of the womb. The future of humanity could be virtually unrecognisable by the end of the 21st century, according to Elise Bohan – and that's if we get the transition right. If we get it wrong, well. In ten years time it's all going to look pretty different, and in another ten years that's a total event horizon for me … I think it's eminently plausible at that point that the game has changed in some very fundamental way, whether for good or bad." Bohan, 31, is speaking from a sunny Mosman apartment, where she is house-sitting and looking after the plants. It's a distance away from the Hawkesbury river on the outskirts of Sydney where she grew up; a place with pretty spots but where it was tough to be a smart kid. And it is a half world away from Oxford University where she forms part of the Future of Humanity Institute. "I believe that," she says. "We are in the century that defines the future of humanity like no other." Transhumanism is a movement that aims to address – or end – what Bohan calls the "tragedies of reality": ageing, sickness and involuntary death. It is, she writes, "a philosophy and a project that aims to make us more than human". Whether we recognise or understand it, that project has already begun, she says, and it will transform our world – and minds and bodies – within our lifetimes. Not only is it happening, she says, but this transition is necessary if humanity is to survive in perpetuity. For Bohan, it is no great to leap to imagine that a baby born in 2030 may have its entire genome mapped at birth, that data uploaded to a central health record and cross-referenced at any medical appointment throughout its life. It is no great stretch to think that AI will become the most powerful intellectual force of the century. That human consciousness might be transferred from our "meat sacks" (bodies) into a technological sphere. That the rise of AI and automation might render great swathes of human labour redundant, and that maybe – if we get it right – that could leave more time for leisure, big thinking, meditation, connection. Experiments are already underway in the realm of artificial wombs, and Bohan is sure – when viable – women will be "clamouring" to be freed from the shackles of pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. The book, she writes, is a "love letter to humanity", but hers is a "tough love". A love which sees a future for humanity, but not necessarily for human beings as we know it. When Bohan first encountered transhumanism, at around the age of 21, her first reaction was, "It's crazy.

In the latest of our Predictions series we take a look at what the future of healthcare will look like. Could artificial intelligence and smart technology improve every stage of our lives? We look at how the future of healthcare will affect us from birth including wearable tech and the internet of things to capturing baseline health data we can use to monitor our health as we grow older. As part of the government's plan to build a Britain fit for the future, £300 million will go towards developing the innovations and new technologies of tomorrow. From womb to tomb Health scanning and data will become ever present in our lives – even from the very start of life.

In the latest of our Predictions series we take a look at what the future of healthcare will look like. Could artificial intelligence and smart technology improve every stage of our lives? We look at how the future of healthcare will affect us from birth including wearable tech and the internet of things to capturing baseline health data we can use to monitor our health as we grow older. From womb to tomb Health scanning and data will become ever present in our lives – even from the very start of life. Before birth, scanning will take place in the womb which will create a basic profile of a person's health and create treatment plans from the very start.

For millennia it has been the dividing line in the battle of the sexes. Women may be better at multi-tasking, less susceptible to'man flu' and safer behind the wheel -- but, physically, men are the stronger sex. And no wonder: on average, males are 6in taller than females and have twice the upper-body strength, as well as denser bones, stronger tendons and greater muscle mass. Wonder Woman may be taking cinemas by storm this summer, but it's always Superman, with his rippling abs and bulging biceps, who saves the damsel in distress. However, this could be about to change.

When she started in vitro fertilization, Katie Shepard, a medical device consultant from outside St. Paul, Minnesota, knew it could take more than one round to get pregnant. So, after the grueling regimen of hormone injections, ultrasound exams, egg retrieval and transfer of embryos back into her womb, she stayed optimistic -- until her second cycle. Of the 25 eggs harvested over the course of those two IVF treatments, only three developed into embryos. "It felt like someone took me out at the knees with a baseball bat," Shepard says. Worse, the embryos didn't take, nor did any from her third cycle.