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Monday, December 29, 2003
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A Year of Small Steps and Giant Leaps
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The top 10 science and technology developments of 2003
By Simon Smith

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Lizard-like Regeneration Closer with Stem Cell Finding
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Tricked Brain Cells Live Hours without Oxygen
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Effective SARS Treatment Found
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Garlic Compound Kills Superbugs
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Grape Juice Boosts Memory, Motor Skills
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Wires Thinner than Light Created
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Deer Cloned, Reindeer Next?
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Treat Aging as Many Diseases, Researchers Argue
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Appetite Trigger Found
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Blood Cell Mimic Could Deliver Drugs
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Genes Mark Potent Stem Cells
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Ink Jet Prints Flat Screens
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Monday, December 22, 2003

Cholesterol-free Mouse Engineered
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Monday, December 22, 2003

Modified Stem Cells Cure Parkinson's in Rats
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Monday, December 22, 2003

Sony Robot Learns to Run
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Monday, December 22, 2003

"Virtual" Supercomputer to Probe Matter
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Monday, December 22, 2003

Sequencing Shortcut Provides Corn Genome
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Monday, December 22, 2003

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TECHNIQUES
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Hormone Therapy
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Hormone therapy is the use of hormones in medical treatment. It covers
various types of types of hormones, including growth hormones and sex
hormones.

TECHNOLOGIES
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Robots
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A robot can be defined as a manmade entity with a body and an intelligent
feedback-driven connection between sense and action. Usually, the
intelligence is a computer or microcontroller running a program.

EVENTS CALENDAR
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The Economics of the Singularity: An Immortality Institute Online Chat
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Starts: Sunday, January 04, 2004
Ends: Sunday, January 04, 2004
Location: Cyberspace
Assistant professor of economics at George Mason University, Robin Hanson
joins the Immortality Institute to discuss how long-term trends in economic
growth may reveal a coming technological singularity within this century.

Genomics and Society: The First Lancaster-Cardiff CESAGen International
Conference
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Starts: Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Ends: Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Location: London, England
Genomics is at the core of many of society's most crucial and polarizing
debates. The first CESAGen Conference on "Genomics and Society" will focus
on the radical new genetic technologies that, 50 years after the discovery
of the double helical structure of DNA, are said to hold great promises, and
challenges, for the future well-being of humanity.

Fourth WSEAS International Conference on Robotics, Distance Learning and
Intelligent Communication Systems
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Starts: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Ends: Thursday, September 16, 2004
Location: Izmir, Turkey
This conference will cover such topics as human-robot interfaces, cellular
and biologically inspired robots, personal and service robots and
telerobotics.

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Unmaking Memories: Interview with James McGaugh
www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm
Scientific American interviews leading neurobiologist James McGaugh to find
out just how close scientists are to controlling memory recall as portrayed
in the sci-fi thriller Paycheck, in which an engineer has his memory erased
after completing a sensitive job.

The Genetics of Generosity: Why We Like to Help
www.theage.com.au/articles/...19661.html
Johnjoe McFadden of The Age reports on possible evolutionary purposes of
kindness and cooperation.

Poor Man's Hero
www.reason.com/0312/fe.ng.poor.shtml
Reason Online's Nick Gillespie interviews controversial writer Johan
Norberg, who champions globalization as the best hope for the developing
world.

Planning A Head: Kurzweil's response to Scientific American
www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html
In its September 2003 issue, Scientific American critiqued Ray Kurzweil's
vision of reverse-engineering the brain and the future of machine
intelligence. Here's Kurzweil's response, published in the magazine's
January 2004 issue.

Will Eric Drexler Save the West From Nano Annihilation?
newsmax.com/archives/art.../014100.shtml
Weapons expert Lev Navrozov has declared K. Eric Drexler to be the Einstein
of nanotechnology. Specifically, Navrozov is comparing Einstein's famous
warning to President Roosevelt about the viability of atomic weapons to
Drexler's 1986 book, Engines of Creation, where he warns about the
possibility of the development of nanoweapons.

The Smaller the Better
www.reason.com/0312/fe.rb.the.shtml
Reason Online's Ronald Bailey looks forward to the limitless promise of
nanotechnology, but worries about the
growing peril of a moratorium.

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