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First Tourist Spaceship to Be Unveiled by Virgin Today

South Africa to Treat All HIV-Positive Babies

A Life of Its Own: Where will synthetic biology lead us?

Magnetic Nanoparticles To Simultaneously Diagnose, Monitor And Treat

Brain Waves Can 'Write' on a Computer in Early Tests, Researchers Show

Scientists develop pill that could spell an end to straighteners after identifying 'curly hair gene'

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Spacewalkers tackle hefty tank removal in space

I'm uninsured, so I'm going to try and get a free flu shot thanks to Walgreens! Thank u, Walgreens!

Chicks ground up alive, caught on video

Pictured: The electronic device that allows blind people to 'see' using their tongue

White Europeans 'only evolved 5,500 years ago after food habits changed'

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NASA: Use of robots 'very successful' in Endeavour's mission

The spacewalking shuttle crew going that extra 125,000 miles to build a £1.45 billion research lab that's out of this world

Evolutionary rethink as scientists claim our most distant ancestors came from lakes and not the sea

Artificial brain could be reality in just 10 years, scientists claim

Members of the government panel reviewing NASA’s human spaceflight program said Tuesday that the life of the International Space Station should be extended past its planned demise in 2016.

Camp faithless: Britain's first atheist summer camp

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Stem Cell Decision Opens New Doors, May Spur More Research: Some avenues of scientific inquiry remain unfunded, however

Congress considers banning antibiotics in livestock

Why didn't this get done many years ago? Everyone has known for a long time that it's not healthy!

Giving hope to paralysis victims, a monkey feeds itself using the power of thought

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Jackson's body to be on public view starting Friday

How Old Do You Feel? It Depends on Your Age

Doctors warn against 'swine flu parties'

too funny!

Teen Fatalism Linked to Risky Behavior: Survey Shows 15% of Teens Believe They Will Die Young

I'm a fatalist, but only philosophically...

Daily sex 'best for good sperm'

Gay Rights Groups Praise Pending End to HIV Travel Ban

NASA manager pitches a cheaper return-to-moon plan

Wheelchair steered using brain waves developed by Toyota

At last! Age of the universal phone charger dawns

Geron shares jump on GE stem cell pact

http://www.fiercebiotech.com

Solar orbiter Ulysses ends mission after 18 years

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NASA to begin layoffs as shuttle retirement nears

Huge impact crater discovered on Mercury:
NASA's spacecraft also observed evidence of ancient volcanoes

Isn't mercury about to go into retrograde? It seems like it just was...

Meet Elise, the girl of two with an IQ higher than Carol Vorderman!

Mind how you go: The amazing wheelchair... controlled by the power of thought

PANDEMICS IN PERSPECTIVE

Grandmother saves brother by becoming the world's oldest stem cell donor

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2009 space oddity: 'Blob' 12.9billion light years away baffles astronomers

Inventor gives Rodin's 'The Thinker' a shocking new twist... by shooting 500,000 volts of electricity down his body

I wonder exactly what this does to a human's brain... condering that our brains are already electronic, like a computer.

How night owls are cleverer and richer than people who rise early

I've cloned a human: Extraordinary claims of a doctor who 'has implanted embryos into four women'

Scientists Unravel Genome of the Cow

April 24, 1990: Hubble Becomes Big Eye Above Sky

Missing link: Arctic fossil reveals how seals went from land to sea

As a child, the first job I ever wanted to have was a marine biologist, mostly because seals were my favorite animals. Since I've always been interested in pinnepedia I find this evolutionary discovery fun.

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This Week in Science - 31 March, 2009
Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:32 PM PDT
Hells Bells It’s Stem Cells, Video Games For Vision, Black Hole Stories, Justin’s Squishy Balls, Playing Asteroids, Tuberculosis NADs, Evolution Rants, Daddies and Birds, Carnivorous Dino Bird, and the Minion Mailbag

Robot Scientist makes first discoveries on its own

The robot, called Adam, is the first machine to have independently "discovered new scientific knowledge"

Human heart can grow new cells, study finds
‘Fundamental breakthrough’ will likely lead to new treatments

Honda creates a robot controlled by power of thought

Why isn't stuff like this saturating the media? I think it's interesting.

syfy here on earth and not in space

Has anyone noticed that the line between magic and technology is starting to blur? At the singularity summit, the speakers explained that magic and technology are becoming the same thing, and the the contemporary breakthroughs will most likely be visible here on earth before humans begin to venture into outer space.

I have noticed this trend in popular culture, with entertainment focusing a lot more on fantasies instead of science fiction being relegated to space, and things cosmic.

Dollhouse is a hot new show to which I'm already rather attached. Taking place post-singularity, most of the technology explored in the show deals with digital consciousness. Techno enthusiasts are able to upload and download human memories, thoughts, and emotions into computers with a subsequent cut and paste, only to make new personalities and hence consciousnesses each time. These newly made synthetic consciousnesses are imprinted into "dolls" humans who have had their entire brain "wiped clean" where they hover in a child like, half conscious half unconscious state of suspended animation until their services are required.

It's very interesting to see the media picking up on such fantastical yet real themes in entertainment. Just in going to the movies lately, and seeing the direction that science fiction is going, the biggest obvious difference is that these movies and tv shows are taking place on earth instead of outer space. Perhaps it's because so much about space is still unknown, that it became such a dominant theme since Star Trek's inception in the 60s. Yet, interestingly enough, now that so much is known, and what's not possible is all becoming possible in front of everyone's minds, science fiction on earth is not only science fact, but now it's just... drama.

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Debris misses space station
NASA says a piece of spent rocket motor came within striking distance of the $100-billion station. The damage could have been catastrophic.

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have shown for the first time that it may be possible to "read" a person's mind simply by looking at brain activity.

This reminds me of the Memory to Media Center!

juicy news day!

WASHINGTON — Officials with NASA and President-elect Barack Obama's transition team on Thursday tried to paper over tensions that have arisen as the agency defended a chronically underfunded blueprint for space exploration.

-> I don't think Nasa is going to do anything impressive. The united states has not been competative with this issue for many years now.

20% of teens say they've put nude pics of themselves online

-> omg, "1 in 5 Teens Engaging in 'Tech' Sex" wtf?

US gains in math and science ed…Really?

Gene mutation protects against milk shakes and other fatty fare

Many Children Now Rely on Alternative Remedies

The Malaria Vaccine Explained

California air board adopts a sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gases

A Japanese research team has successfully processed and displayed images directly from the human brain, they said in a study to be published in the US magazine Neuron.

Love machine: Computer geek too busy for romance builds himself the perfect girlfriend

Memory To Media Center

The Jejune Institute: General deconstruction of social modulation naturaly results in heightened probability for civic mutation

-> I keep seeing ads for this on the street. They can record your memories onto a VHS.

"Center for Socio-Reengineering
It is considered science fact that many exceptional discoveries occur concurrently, in rhythmic synchronicity, as if all the world were evolving in accordance to a grand musical score. This remains true on a human/animal scale, as well as to that of the cell, the galaxy, and on.

Recently, Jejune researchers across the globe have been observing simultaneous increases in levels of human spontaneity on every continent. And what, precisely, does this mean to the average dilettante? It means that your future is occurring precisely on schedule.

It also means that our work over the past forty years has been effective, and your arrival at this site may have a profound purpose. In fact, it may just represent a dynamic shift in the entire universe. Welcome to a life-altering course of study into the Jejune Method."

-> To be honest, I'm not really sure what it's all about, but I'm REALLY captiavted...

brains connected to the internet

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A new multi-disciplinary collaboration will focus on developing computing technology that mimics the human brain in being able to solve a wide variety of problems. One of the difficulties that the researchers will confront is making a nanoscale material that can mimic the synapses connecting neurons by forming connections that will get stronger or weaker depending on the signals passing through them. From “IBM plans ‘brain-like’ computers“, by BBC News science and technology reporter Jason Palmer:

.n.e.w.z.

Study: Do breast tumors go away on their own?

-> skeptical, but you never really know...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's Papua province is set to pass a bylaw that requires some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infecting others, a lawmaker said on Saturday.

-> not a bad idea!

Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Extends Lives (Update2) Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Antigenics Inc. said its experimental cancer treatment that uses cells from a patient’s brain tumor to produce a vaccine helped extend the lives of people with an aggressive form of the disease.

-> I hope I never get cancer!

Fresh Advance For Genentech In Cancer Fight

-> I love SF based biotechnology firms! I just wonder if "drugs" are still marketable at all? (unless they fuck u up)

MONDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The interaction between white blood cells of the immune system and blood vessels may contribute to epileptic seizures, new research suggests

-> I hope to read more studies about this, because we're always learning more about what's connected and what's not connected...

The perfect way to avoid tailbacks on the motorway is a step closer today in the form of a revolutionary flying car.

-> p.s. when I was a kid, I assumed everyone would have this kind of technology at the very LATEST by the year 2000. Another vision has been stolen from a generation!

You too can be a genius (if you can spare 10,000 hours)

-> but I already am a genius! And, my I.Q. tends to go up about points per year...

Whether you are the adventurous type or one of those who sticks to what you know is all down to how your brain is wired, say scientists.