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# science
Ray Kurzweil seems to think that DNA is like software code which can be optimized and compressed. He's in for a rude awakening if he tries to treat it that way.
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Culture, not genetics, plays the key role in how much you gossip or how willing you are to talk about your problems.
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A group of scientists seems convinced that humans have no free will solely because everything we do can be explained in the language of chemical and electrical signals.
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The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.
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Could the laws of physics step in to prevent attempts at radical life extension?
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According to a Muslim creationist, Allah is less of a deity and more of a programmer with a mad scientist streak.
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According to biology pioneer J. Craig Venter, the first step to personalized medicine and new tools to fight cancer are faster computers.
# astrobiology
Convergent evolution is a very real phenomenon, but how likely is it to apply across different worlds?
# astrobiology
Nearly half the planet's living things could live deep under the surface, raising fascinating questions about how life got started on Earth and where else it could thrive in our solar system.
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DARPA's new moonshot experiment sounds like a recipe for invincible monsters straight out of a B horror movie.