Technology’s power to misinform dims utopian hopes
The ability for computer technology to automatically create a society of smart, tolerant citizens may be more hype and hope than reality...
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The ability for computer technology to automatically create a society of smart, tolerant citizens may be more hype and hope than reality...
DNA and RNA molecules are the basis for all life on Earth, but they don't necessarily have to be the basis for all life everywhere, scientists have shown.
The criminal charges against Kim Dotcom in the United States may never get to trial, the judge overseeing the case has told the FBI.
James Ball discovered the information Google and Facebook hold on him is disturbing and creepy, but also comforting
The development of more effective cancer drugs could be a step nearer thanks to the discovery, by scientists at Warwick Medical School, of how an inbuilt ‘security check’ operates to guarantee cells divide with the correct number of chromosomes.
Donald Sadoway’s radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.
Once considered unimportant "junk DNA," scientists have learned that non-coding RNA (ncRNA) — RNA molecules that do not translate into proteins — play a crucial role in cellular function.
Hundreds of thousands of computers will simultaneously lose access to the internet on July 9, unless their owners check for a virus that may have remained hidden for several years
Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor- an essential factor in the regulation of body fat- which could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia.
Penn State astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves were detected.