Category: Prejudice
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Detecting nuclear explosions, "detecting" nuclear explosions...
The new are full of headlines on how CTBTO managed to detect the nuclear blast of the North Korea recent test. Through sensors - both seismic and even radioactivity sensors (really?) - the agency is said to be able to determine even the type of the device tested. (1, 2, 3) This is what technology…
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DNA, human mind, categorizations...
Cambridge University scientists say they have seen four-stranded DNA at work in human cells for the first time. The famous "molecule of life", which carries our genetic code, is more familiar to us as a double helix. But researchers tell the journal Nature Chemistry that the "quadruple helix" is also present in our cells, and in ways that…
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