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Science and Technology Brief

20060330 More Human Than Human Fox News      The ability to interface biological material with electronic material is the first step toward being able to use such systems in human beings for a variety of purposes, from the correction of … Continue reading

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Science Item of the Day: Legislating Away Bacteria

20060220 Fox News      The state of Maryland is debating legislation that could require new guidelines to combat the growing rate of fatal infections contracted from hospitals. The article is interesting because it brings to light once again a problem … Continue reading

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Science Item of the Day: Just When We Think We Know Everything

20060207 Fox News      Just when we think we know everything, another scientific expedition comes along and proves how much we have yet to learn. In this case, the expedition was a biological exploration of the deep jungle of the … Continue reading

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Science Item of the Day: Ants Teach Hunting

20060113 Fox News           Apparently researchers with not a lot else to do (like trying to invent cars that run on cow dung (see #3), perhaps) discovered that at least one species of ant trains uneducated ant-lings how to hunt … Continue reading

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Science Item of the Day: Stem Cell Science Iced

20060110 The Scotsman         It turns out that the stem cell research release by the South Korean biologist Hwang Woo-Suk was entirely forged. It was all fraudulent. None of it was true.          As I have previously posted on the subject, … Continue reading

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