Human embryos cloned from adult cells
A California company has brought human cloning research to a new level with efficient production of cloned human blastocysts — an early stage
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How China Loses the Coming Space War
A year ago to the day, China knocked a weather satellite out of orbit, and threw the international community into panic. Some figured
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The Future of Nanomaterials
Although the underlying concepts of nanotechnology were thought up in 1959, only during the 1990s were the first tentative steps taken toward identifying
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Secrets and signs
Military patches and logos—simply the latest examples of heraldry dating back thousands of years—are by definition symbolic, so it is no surprise that
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Robot car technology heads for the road
“What is going to change the world is interpreting sensor data and making intelligent and safe decisions,” said Jesse Levinson, a PhD student
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The future of futurology
Yes? No? Well, that’s how the 21st century looked to some futurologists 40 or 50 years ago, and they’re having a hard time
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3rd Annual Terasem Colloquium on the Law of Transbeman Persons
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1KQc2U8Uao] Read the speeches by Marvin Minsky, David R. Koepsell, William Sims Bainbridge, Linda MacDonald-Glenn, Max More, Sebastian Sethe, R. Michael Perry, Gene
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Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
Scientists in Maryland have already built the world’s first entirely handcrafted chromosome — a large looping strand of DNA made from scratch in
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Inside Ebola’s zone of death
Uganda is gripped by fear of an epidemic ‘explosion’ as the killer virus develops a slower and potentially more lethal version. It is
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New Document Reveals Military Mystery’s Powers
For years, no military program has sparked more fevered speculation from conspiracy theorists than the mysterious High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or
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