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Bookmark Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing - the father of modern computer science - has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading.

June 8 2014, 10:11am | Comments
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May 21 2014, 1:29pm | Comments
Bookmark New Statesman | Welcome to the age of synthetic biology – it’s…
Evolution’s retirement plan has been 3.6 billion years in the making. With the appearance of the modern human being, we now have an organism that can take over from natural processes…

April 21 2014, 8:24am | Comments
Bookmark Q&A: Genome Pioneer Craig Venter Plans Largest Human Genome Project to Aid…
Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter announced plans Tuesday to sequence the gene maps of 40,000 volunteers in a bid to crack the secrets of healthy human aging.

March 4 2014, 10:54pm | Comments
Bookmark « The Closing of the Scientific Mind Commentary Magazine
The huge cultural authority science has acquired over the past century imposes large duties on every scientist. Scientists have acquired the power to impress and intimidate every time they open their…

January 6 2014, 4:54am | Comments
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November 20 2013, 6:51am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthal viruses in human DNA « This Is Jersey
Ancient viruses inherited from Neanderthals have been found in modern human DNA. Scientists are investigating possible links between the “endogenous retroviruses”, which are hard-wired into DNA, and modern diseases such as…

November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments
Bookmark Why we can 'see' the house that looks like Hitler | Science…
The Latvian psychologist Konstanins Raudive spent the summer of 1965 trying to contact the dead. Every day, with careful precision, he would take a new reel of recording tape from its…

November 20 2013, 5:13am | Comments
Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments
Bookmark Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth - The Chronicle Review - The…
Let's make one thing clear: Jim Collins won't grow you a house any time soon. More than a decade ago, Collins, a decorated scientist at Boston University, helped give birth to…

March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments
Bookmark From Neanderthal Skull to Neanderthal Brain? – Phenomena: Only Human
The first draft of the Neanderthal genome, published in 2010, came with some titillating news. It showed that some 50,000 years ago, these ancient hominids interbred with the ancestors of many…

March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Opinion: The Case Against Species Revival
Editor's note: Stuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University, and the 2006 laureate of the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences awarded by…

March 19 2013, 4:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs
In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark New Left Project | Articles |Biology in an Age of Technoscience
Hilary Rose is a prominent feminist and sociologist and is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Steven Rose is a neurobiologist at the Open University and the…

February 23 2013, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck – Phenomena: Not…
Using DNA would finally divorce the thing that stores information from the things that read it. Time and again, our storage formats become obsolete because we stop making the machines that…

February 11 2013, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Scientist wants human woman to give birth to a Neanderthal - Crave
A scientist believes he's close to perfecting the necessary technology to clone a Neanderthal - all he needs is a human woman to gestate it.

January 22 2013, 3:44pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans
Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments
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Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It? | Popular Science

November 2 2012, 4:44am | Comments
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The ENCODE delusion

September 25 2012, 3:41am | Comments
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Geologists drive golden spike toward Anthropocene's base

September 18 2012, 4:23am | Comments
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Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken
The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
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A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)

September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark A Matter of Feeling (exploring interzone materials between “inert” and “alive”)
The cosmos is composed of many different species of stardust and despite our advanced, secular knowledge we imagine these primordial substances give rise to a universe, fashioned in our own image.…

September 3 2012, 2:36am | Comments
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August 29 2012, 3:44am | Comments
Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog
The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments
Tumblr A bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod.

August 22 2012, 2:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Next-Generation Digital Information Storage in DNA
Digital information is accumulating at an astounding rate, straining our ability to store and archive it. DNA is among the most dense and stable information media known. The development of new…

August 18 2012, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software
For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter
Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments
Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?
We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments
Bookmark Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution
Dyson refutes the idea that scientific revolutions are concept-driven, a stance pioneered by Thomas Kuhn in his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and later endorsed by other theory-driven…

July 10 2012, 2:42am | Comments

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