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Controversial Research: Good Science Bad Science
It sounds like a great idea: experimentally mutate a rare but deadly virus so that scientists can do a...
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Should Robots Be Blamed for Battlefield Mistakes?
As militaries develop autonomous robotic warriors to replace humans on the battlefield, new ethical questions emerge. If a robot...
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Swiss Unveil Mind-Controlled Robots
Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot using brain signals alone. The team...
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Miniature Honeycomb Grows Nerve
A “miniature honeycomb” – or scaffold – could one day be used to encourage damaged nerves to grow and...
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How Big Data Is Changing Astronomy
Think of all the data humans have collected over the long history of astronomy, from the cuneiform tablets of...
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We Have No Idea How Bad Solar Storms Might Get
When the sun really acts up, spewing out heaps of charged particles in a burst called a coronal mass...
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Training Computers to Recognize Emotion
The Affective Computing Research Group, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working on computers that can read...
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Who Are Animal Scientists Really Serving?
Scores of animal scientists employed by public universities have helped pharmaceutical companies persuade farmers and ranchers to use antibiotics,...
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Nanosponges Soak Up Oil Again and Again
Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while...
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China’s Black Market Stem Cells
Despite government efforts to ban unapproved stem cell treatments, companies around China still offer them openly.