Study: US preparing ‘massive’ military attack against Iran
The United States has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities,
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U.S. Military in Hunt for Bio-based Jet Fuel
Carbon reduction is not the U.S. military’s real goal. Instead the defense department’s main motivation in pursuing biofuels is to reduce its dependence
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Scientists recreate out-of-body experience
Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in giving 12 volunteers out-of-body experiences. People who have come close to death have sometimes spoken later of
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Nanotechnology key to space elevator
A space elevator is one of those ideas from 1950s-style futurism that are so whacky they might just work. Nanowerk via Wall Street Journal.
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Why Russia Is Flexing Its Muscles
Moscow’s latest saber-rattling — flying long-range bomber patrols toward the U.S. and Britain, launching planes from its sole aircraft carrier, redeploying the Russian
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Robot wars are a reality
The deployment of the first armed battlefield robots in Iraq is the latest step on a dangerous path – we are sleepwalking into
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Weizmann Research May Allow Memories to be Erased, Strengthened
Prof. Yadin Dudai, Head of the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department, and his colleagues are challenging the prevalent view that memories are recorded in
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Researchers Evolve Artificial Enzymes in the Laboratory
Living cells are not the only place where enzymes can help speed along chemical reactions. Industrial applications also employ enzymes to accelerate reactions
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Artificial Life Likely In 3 To 10 Years
Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they’re getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within
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Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch
Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s
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