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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many people have scar tissue, and everyone, one day gets wrinkles, now both of those human frailties could be a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Over 100,000 people die and another 4.5 million people are seriously affected by poisonous animal bites each year, now a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There will always be questions about the viability and impact of releasing genetically modified organisms into our environment but with…

Synthetic biology opens the door for custom designed humans whose only parents are a computer Scientists can already produce viable artificial human eggs and sperm but…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New brain wave monitoring devices are making it easier than ever for companies, governments and institutions to pull your darkest…

Moore’s Law might have been struggling recently but there’s no stopping universities churning out bigger and bigger chips Researchers at Princeton University want to give…

The Kilocore chip represents a step change in CPU power and efficiency Most of todays great advances in science and technology have been the direct result…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Let us salute the end of criminal line ups and berate the loss of our future privacy.   If you…