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Are “green” explosives ethical?

June 24, 2015

Andrew Lee

DARPA is looking to rapidly accelerate biological technology for defense purposes

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In Volume 2 Issue 6 Tags Tomorrow's Science Today, darpa, synbio, Andrew
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Ebola is so last year: the MERS outbreak in Korea

June 17, 2015

Ben Sally

The latest export from the Middle East isn’t oil or textiles or natural gas: it’s a novel coronavirus that causes a disease dubbed Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS.

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In Volume 2 Issue 6 Tags mers, virus, pandemic, Ben
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Pants on Fire

June 10, 2015

Sarah Puhr

The startling rise of retracted data

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In Volume 2 Issue 6 Tags retraction, peer review, Sarah
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Weather modification is here, and it has been for decades

June 3, 2015

Amy Jobe

Controlling the weather seems like it should be well past the grasp of current technology. However, a tool called cloud seeding, used primarily to induce rainfall, already exists, and it's been tested and deployed at grand scales for nearly seventy years.

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In Volume 2 Issue 6 Tags Amy, Weather, Cloud Seeding
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