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Tightened muzzle on scientists is 'Orwellian' |
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010 11:02 |
Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria, says the public has a right to know what scientists are discovering and learning.Photograph by: Ray Smith, Postmedia News, Postmedia NewsThe Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age. |
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India develops a $35 laptop for students |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:44 |
India has come up with a 35-dollar touch-screen "laptop" -- a computing prototype that it aims to make available to students from elementary schools to universities. |
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Craig Venter creates first synthetic life form |
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Written by Ian Sample
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Saturday, 22 May 2010 07:40 |
Guardian.co.uk
Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form
Scientists have created the world’s first synthetic life form in a landmark experiment that paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved.
The controversial feat, which has occupied 20 scientists for more than 10 years at an estimated cost of $40m, was described...
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Last Updated on Saturday, 22 May 2010 07:53 |
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UK national ID card cloned in 12 minutes |
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Saturday, 03 April 2010 13:04 |
Ian GrantThursday 06 August 2009 11:30
The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning.
The newspaper hired computer expert Adam Laurie to test the security that protects the information embedded in the chip on the card.
UPDATE: ID card cannot be hacked, UK Government claims - encryption secrets revealed
Using a Nokia mobile phone and a laptop computer, Laurie was able to copy the data on a card that is...
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Last Updated on Saturday, 03 April 2010 13:05 |
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Lab rats with cellphones? |
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:56 |
Lab rats with cellphones? Our wireless lifestyle is making us all unwitting test subjects. By Christopher Ketcham
February 23, 2010
We love our digital gadgets -- "magic" devices that define cool and promise to remake our lives for the better. But there is growing evidence of a dark side to the techno-magic. Your cellphone, and any other wireless device that depends on electromagnetic (EM) microwave radiation to...
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Last Updated on Monday, 01 March 2010 18:31 |
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