Humans, not robots, responsible for robotic threat
Who made who? T600 from the movie Terminator Salvation When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the “Three Laws of Responsible
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Documentary: Anthrax War
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Synthetic cells get together to make electronics
A network of artificial cells that work together to act as an AC/DC converter has been built. Demonstrating that synthetic cells can team
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Israeli military robot snake
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Geoengineering: More Political and Moral Than Scientific?
The prospect of geoengineering continous to spark debate among scientists, environmentalists and politicians. Recently NPR carried an article on the topic: Engineering our
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A Thermodynamic Limit on Brain Size
If our brains have to be cooled like computer chips, is there a limit on how big they can be? In recent years,
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Quantum tunneling with nanowires
Nanowires Quantum tunneling is the capability of a particle to inhabit regions of space that would normally be off-limits according to classical mechanics.
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Latest human cloning claims leave sour taste
It’s clone-mania again, for the second time in just a few weeks. This time, it’s fertility expert Panayiotis Zavos, founder of the private
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Manning the barricades
Ill. “Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets”, Scientific American. The credit crunch is dragging down the global economy and raising political
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Artificial human body parts
Exact replicas of a man’s thumb bones have been made for the first time using a printer that uses natural materials for ink
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