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Alex Muller
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DARPA Living Foundries plans to make Synthetic Biology ten times faster and cheaper
Wired Danger Room – DARPAs Living Foundries project was first announced by the agency last year. Darpa has handed out seven research awards worth $15.5...
IBMs Siri ban highlights companies privacy, trade secret challenges
Apple’s digital "assistant" Siri isn’t welcome at IBM; neither are Apple’s voice dictation features in the iPhone and iPad. IBM CIO Jeanette Horan revealed in...
American Heart Association: Tasers can cause death
But some police agencies continue to stand by their use of the weapons, saying the devices provide officers with a valuable, less-lethal means of subduing...
Burning planet leaves dust in its wake
Astronomers have for the first time, found a rocky planet that’s slowly being vapourised by the blistering heat of the star it’s orbiting. Their...
New Frog Species Found in Panama
The frog, described in the journal ZooKeys, belongs to a species-rich group of frogs, the so-called rainfrogs that lack a tadpole stage, but develop directly...
Chimpanzees and orangutans have personalities
Chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people", researchers say. For years experts have debated whether great apes truly display human-like personalities –...
Russia, Japan aim for the Moon
It was a rare confluence — the heads of the space agencies for Europe, Canada and Russia, along with senior representatives from the space agencies...
NASA hails SpaceX launch as a new era for spaceflight
In a pivotal moment for private spaceflight, a towering white rocket lifted a cone-shaped capsule into space early Tuesday on a mission to the International...
The Facebook Fallacy
Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it. Given its vast cash...
Radical Life Extension Is Already Here, But We are Doing it Wrong
So far as we know, the last hundred years have been the most radical period of life extension in all of human history. At the...