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The growing movement for a basic income
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Now that the ability to selectively insert or remove genes from DNA is widespread, a ‘global discussion’ is being convened to agree fresh safeguards
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There might never be robots that think like you.
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The relationship between money and work seems increasingly defunct.
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Could we redesign shopping as a system of “catch-and-release,” so that, like sport fishing, it’s the adventure and not the prize that becomes central?
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Only 12 people—all Americans—have put their boots on the Moon. Today, however, NASA has no plans to send humans back to our pockmarked satellite. Instead, its space pioneers will shoot... read more
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For a generation of CEOs, Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma was a guiding light on how to survive industry disruptions. His book educated business executives on where competition would emerge from...
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The way that future humans age will, in all likeliness, be nothing like how we age today.
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Long-awaited decision by US government authorizes the first genetically engineered animal to be sold as food.
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Racing horses, pigs, and primates too.
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Giving poor people cash is a pretty great idea.
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In tests, the new medicine, called teixobactin, rapidly cured infections that should have been fatal, say scientists reporting in the journal Nature.
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For some time now, graphene has been the wonder material that scientists have been most excited about using: as it develops, it promises to transform everything from night-vision goggles to energy storage .
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When people talk about the next-generation of computers, they're usually referring to one of two things: quantum computers – devices that will have exponentially greater processing power thanks to the addition of quantum superposition to the...
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A global meeting in Washington, D.C., isn’t just about whether or not we should alter our species with gene editing. It’s about how we can pull it off.
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In space, no one can hear you litter (but that doesn't mean it's a good idea).
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Advances in the genetic engineering of animals are paving the way for a more sustainable and ecological era of food production.
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Biologists at Tufts University have succeeded in inducing one species of flatworm to grow heads and brains characteristic of another species of flatworm without altering genomic sequence.
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Thank you for interfacing.
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Designers of a “selfish” gene able to spread among mosquitoes say it could wipe out malaria, but the scientific community is at odds over whether or not we should do it.
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For the first time, scientists have created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, using the vascular system of living roses to build – or rather ‘grow’ – the central components of electronic circuits.
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As the race to adapt to climate change quickens, a South African scientist is leading global research into developing crops that mimic the extraordinary survival skills of "resurrection plants".
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Scientists in France were able to restore the youth of cells taken from people 100 years of age and older. They reprogrammed them to stem cells stage, d
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