Category: Research
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Water memory. Human prejudice.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is potentially wading into hot water next month when it hosts a meeting set up by Nobelist Luc Montagnier to discuss his controversial research on what has become known as "the memory of water." The afternoon at the agency's Paris headquarters will feature talks about the…
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Supercomputers, discoveries, un-human science...
Supercomputers make discoveries that scientists can't. In May last year, a supercomputer in San Jose, California, read 100,000 research papers in 2 hours. It found completely new biology hidden in the data. Called KnIT, the computer is one of a handful of systems pushing back the frontiers of knowledge without human help. KnIT didn't read…
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Organs from "scratch"! NOT!
In what's being hailed as a scientific first, researchers in Scotland have created a fully functional organ from scratch inside the body of a living animal. (1) Well, because scientists keep making the same claims over and over again, I am oblidged to make the same clarifications over and over again... It is in the…
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GM research. Research goals. Research intuition...
China’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided not to renew biosafety certificates that allowed research groups to grow genetically modified (GM) rice and corn. The permits, to grow two varieties of GM rice and one transgenic corn strain, expired on 17 August. The reasoning behind the move is not clear, and it has raised questions about…
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UK, Research, Deadlines - Another plague of science...
England's giant sequencing endeavor, the 100,000 Genomes Project, is getting a cash injection from public and private sources to meet its 2017 deadline, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. (1) Science with deadlines. It seems logical and proper. But how can you reach truth with deadlines? Unless you make shortcuts to fit the... schedule? Thought cannot…
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