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Radioactive World – GodfreyDaily
“We are unable to control radioactive water seeping out of Fukushima plant.” – Tepco By Godfrey The environmental impacts of fukushima are still being felt today and will continue to be for many tomorrows. We are literally destroying our planet with toxic nuclear waste in the name of energy, and being charged for it. Fukushima alone is […]
MoreAcademics at Oxford University pay to be cryogenically preserved so they can be ‘brought back to life in the future’
The belief that death is the only certainty in life is a concept senior academic staffs at an Oxford University Institute are hoping to dismantle, by paying to be cryogenically preserved and brought back to life in the future. Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy at the Future of Humanity Institute [FHI] and his co researcher […]
MoreJapan halts imports of U.S. wheat after USDA’s shock finding of genetic pollution from GMOs
(NaturalNews) It has already begun: Japan has just cancelled a large contract to purchase U.S. wheat. “We will refrain from buying western white and feed wheat effective today,” Toru Hisadome, a Japanese farm ministry official in charge of wheat trading, told Reuters. As many readers well know, I predicted precisely this scenario just yesterday in […]
MoreNew spectre of cloned babies: Scientists create embryos in lab that ‘could grow to full term’ | Mail Online
The prospect of cloned babies has moved a step closer after scientists extracted stem cells from human embryos created in a laboratory. The breakthrough could lead to customised cells to help treat and even cure a range of diseases, from Alzheimer’s to multiple sclerosis. However, it also raises the spectre of babies being cloned in […]
MoreGlobe Grows Darker as Sunshine Diminishes 10% to 37% – NYTimes.com
Defying expectation and easy explanation, hundreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from the late 1950’s to the early 90’s, or 2 percent to 3 percent a decade. In some regions like Asia, the United States and Europe, the drop was […]
MoreBBC News – ESA approves BIOMASS satellite to monitor Earth’s forests
Scientists will use BIOMASS to calculate the amount of carbon stored in the world’s forests, and to monitor for any changes over the course of the five-year mission. via BBC News – ESA approves BIOMASS satellite to monitor Earth’s forests.
More‘Appalling irresponsibility’: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratory – Science – News – The Independent
Experts warn of danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people. via ‘Appalling irresponsibility’: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratory – The Independent.
MoreBioEdge: “In vitro eugenics” is coming, predicts Australian bioethicist
Taking a peek into the future, an Australian bioethicist says that it will be possible to use stem cell technology to breed better humans in a Petri dish. Robert Sparrow, of Monash University, writes in the Journal of Medical Ethics that it is not too early to launch a debate about what he calls “in […]
MoreTelomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent | Singularity Hub
Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying is a gene therapy that gives mice a healthy dose of telomerase, the enzyme that keeps our chromosomes – and thus our cells and bodies – “young.” The therapy extended the lifespans of mice by […]
MoreScientists Decode Dreams With Brain Scans | Wired Science | Wired.com
It used to be that what happened in your dreams was your own little secret. But today scientists report for the first time that they’ve successfully decoded details of people’s dreams using brain scans. Before you reach for your tin hat, you should know that the scientists managed this feat only with the full cooperation of […]
MoreScience Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in Lab – WSJ.com
Inside a warren of rooms buried in the basement of Gregorio Marañón hospital here, Dr. Aviles and his team are at the sharpest edge of the bioengineering revolution that has turned the science-fiction dream of building replacement parts for the human body into a reality. via Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in […]
MoreSo It Begins: Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves | Danger Room | Wired.com
The Pentagon’s blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves — while making it easier for ordinary schlubs like us to build them, too. via So It Begins: Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves | Danger Room | […]
More» Chinese Eugenics Factory Collects “Genius” DNA To Breed “Enhanced” People – Infowars
According to a leading evolutionary biologist, the Chinese are engaging in a massive breeding operation with the aim of ultimately creating a breed of cognitively enhanced individuals. And what’s more, the China-based eugenics factory recently bought up a large genome research institute in the United States, giving the Chinese access to the DNA of Americans. […]
MoreReviving the Woolly Mammoth: Will De-Extinction Become Reality? – Yahoo! News
Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life in 2003 by creating a clone from a frozen tissue sample harvested before the goat’s entire population vanished in 2000. The clone survived just seven minutes after birth, but it gave scientists hope that “de-extinction,” once a pipedream, could become a reality. via Reviving the […]
MoreCERN: We’ve found ‘a Higgs boson’; but is it predicted version? – latimes.com
Evidence indicates that the new particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider is a Higgs boson, officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, said Thursday. But whether it is the version of the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model of Particle Physics is not yet known. via CERN: We’ve […]
MoreStudy: Bee Venom Kills HIV – US News and World Report
Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells unharmed, which could lead to an anti-HIV vaginal gel and other treatments. Theoretically, the particles could also be injected into an HIV-positive person to eliminate the virus in the bloodstream. via Study: Bee […]
MoreU.S. Air Force developing terrifying swarms of tiny unmanned drones that can hover, crawl and even kill targets
The U.S. Air Force is developing tiny unmanned drones that will fly in swarms, hover like bees, crawl like spiders and even sneak up on unsuspecting targets and execute them with lethal precision. The Air Vehicles Directorate, a research arm of the Air Force, has released a computer-animated video outlining the the future capabilities of […]
MoreDesigning Life: Should Babies Be Genetically Engineered?
NEW YORK — The increasing power and accessibility of genetic technology may one day give parents the option of modifying their unborn children, in order to spare offspring from disease or, conceivably, make them tall, well muscled, intelligent or otherwise blessed with desirable traits. http://www.livescience.com/27206-genetic-engineering-babies-debate.html
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