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Scientists: Superintelligent Robots May Be Dominant Form of Life

YoopyaDec 22, 2014July 14, 20230

According to a group of prominent U.S. scientists, the dominant form of life in the universe is likely not biological creatures… but superintelligent robots. As

Scientists to map genome of medieval English king Richard III

YoopyaFeb 14, 2014October 30, 20230

(Reuters) – A year after they revealed a twisted skeleton found under a car park as the mortal remains of King Richard III, scientists in

Neanderthal lineages excavated from modern human genomes

YoopyaJan 30, 2014November 1, 20230

A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from

A not-close-enough view of ‘Hawking’

YoopyaJan 29, 2014November 25, 20230

Stephen Hawking celebrated his 72d birthday this month, marking a little more than half a century since the British physicist was diagnosed with a degenerative

Investigation finds Chinese factory slaughters 600 whale sharks a year

YoopyaJan 29, 2014November 25, 20230

A four-year investigation by WildLifeRisk, a Hong Kong-based marine conservation group, has found that a single factory in China’s Zhejiang Province slaughters some 600 whale

Black hole theory my ‘biggest blunder,’ Stephen Hawking says

YoopyaJan 27, 2014November 25, 20230

Stephen Hawking now says light and information may be able to escape from black holes, doing an about-face on the objects that helped cement his

Ancient Europeans: dark skinned, blue eyed?

YoopyaJan 27, 2014December 3, 20230

An ancient European hunter-gatherer man had dark skin and blue eyes, a new genetic analysis has revealed. The analysis of the man, who lived in

GlassesOff app claims to eliminate need for reading glasses

YoopyaJan 24, 2014December 3, 20230

Like death and taxes, reading glasses can seem almost inevitable — perhaps until now. A new app called GlassesOff claims to be able to improve

Shining Lights: 4 People Who Changed The World

YoopyaJul 12, 2013April 7, 20230

We all like to think that our actions are, at some fundamental level, important. That at the end of the day we have left a

To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab?

YoopyaJun 17, 20130

NEW YORK (AP) — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she’d been waiting for months, and her parents