Cloning monkeys for research puts humans on a slippery ethical slope
Scientists have many tools at their disposal to study, manipulate and copy genes.
Scientists have many tools at their disposal to study, manipulate and copy genes.
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2019
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When you're lost, Siri can be your best friend. But if she can't retrieve the right address from your contacts, she can drive you crazy.
Other
Jan 15, 2019
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The market testing that helped give us the Google search we know today is being emulated by industries from hospitality to manufacturing to help better focus their products and services and meet customer needs. So what did ...
Business
Nov 21, 2018
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Communication could step beyond reading a cellular phone screen with a new technique by Purdue College of Engineering researchers to learn and read messages through a person's sense of touch.
Engineering
Jun 18, 2018
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Blow into the tube, please. In the future, the procedure will not just be used by police checking for alcohol intoxication, but also for testing the condition of athletes and for people who want to lose that extra bit of ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 10, 2017
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TU Graz researchers develop new brain-computer interface application that allows music to be composed by the power of thought. They have published their results in the current issue of the journal PLOS ONE.
Engineering
Sep 11, 2017
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It is a known fact that adhesives may smell unpleasant. However, as Fraunhofer researchers have recently discovered, this doesn't need to be the case. Through extensive research on acrylic adhesives they were able to identify ...
Materials Science
Sep 1, 2017
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Researchers at Bielefeld University have developed a grasp system with robot hands that autonomously familiarizes itself with novel objects. The new system works without previously knowing the characteristics of objects, ...
Robotics
Jun 9, 2017
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Light determines how we see the world. Take a golf ball: we can see the shine on it, make out the structure or even perceive it as a flat disk because in a certain light we cannot see any shadow. Knowledge of light and how ...
Other
Mar 29, 2017
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In a lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers simulated conditions that astronauts in space suits would experience when the Orion spacecraft is vibrating during launch atop the agency's powerful Space Launch ...
Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2017
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