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Scientists Build With DNA Bricks
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have coaxed single strands of DNA to fit together like Lego bricks and form...
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Collective Intelligence: A Dialogue With Thomas W. Malone
As all the people and computers on our planet get more and more closely connected, it’s becoming increasingly useful...
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Atom Smasher Creates New Kind of Matter
Collisions between particles inside the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher have created what looks like a new form of...
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Model Sheds Light on Chemistry That Sparked Origin of Life
The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science. However, recent...
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DOE, NASA Testing Fission Reactor for Spaceflight
Researchers from NASA and the Department of Energy have demonstrated a nuclear reactor that could power spaceflight. It’s nowhere...
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Prehistoric Human Feces Biomarkers Help Track Ancient Climate Change
The race is on to blame everything related to ecological change on human footprints – even the past can...
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Neuroscience: Under Attack
This fall, science writers have made sport of yet another instance of bad neuroscience. The culprit this time is...
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Cambridge to Study Technology’s Risk to Humans
Could computers become cleverer than humans and take over the world? Or is that just the stuff of science...
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Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs
Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling...
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Church Uses Facebook for Sacramental Scrutiny at Its Peril
For all Il Papa’s social media encouragement the last few years, the Roman Catholic Church continues to struggle with...