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extracted from human cells. The next best-seller will probably be about putting that DNA into synthetic amber so that future generations can recreate the forms of their ancestors — or maybe just wear the ancestral DNA in amber jewelry….(c) 1993, Los Angeles Times ...

epidemic also makes it hard to think wisely about the effects this technology is having now, and will have in the future.OK. But we can't escape to a nice South Sea island — not with pollution lapping the shores and diffusing through the air. The planet is ONE, and we have to face up to the problems of our technology as they affect the entire Earth.With this preamble, it seems safe to launch ...

the solar corona, noticing when masses of it tear away into space and increase the solar wind.Because our ultimate future may depend on space exploration and settlement, we must learn as much as possible about the solar wind. STEP-(Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program) is a seven-year project coordinating research results from observatories, satellites and computer simulations. Since the sun ...

enough to observe a life-and-death struggle going on as some hapless insect is trapped and tied up for the spider's future dinner. If the human touches the web, the spider is likely to plummet down to safety on a dragline.There are many kinds of orb spiders. My favorite is the one that captures moths, which can escape other spider webs by shedding the loose scales on their wings. This spider's ...

wet land habitats. Molluscs first appeared back in Cambrian times, when true vertebrates were millions of years in the future. Most molluscs are bilaterally symmetrical with one end more or less a head ; their innards are covered by a fleshy mantle ; they move along on a muscular ventral foot. A lot of them manufacture shells for themselves.Humans love to eat many·molluscs. Members of the ...

factory's robotized arms for manipulating tools.Most fiction, and even most scientific speculation, deals with the future of robotics, a term Isaac first used without realizing that he was coining something new. But Isaac also contributed heavily to the present development of robotics by writing his "I, Robot" stories, which influenced the career choice of many leading pioneers in robotics and ...

국내 발명가들의 아이디어 창출을 고취하기 위해 현재 미국에서 시판되고 있는 「More Future Stuff」일부를 발췌, 소개한다.상품마다 소개되는 세 항목 중 「가능성」은 2001년까지 상품화될 확률을 산출한 것이고 실현예상년도 역시 현재 이 상품을 개발하고 있는 회사 등에서 제시한 것이다. 전문 ...

up altogether. We are alive because we are still in the early days of the universe.But what does this mean for the future?As time goes on, will the universe gradually fill with light until, perhaps trillions of years from now, it will have reached the state where life is impossible anywhere within it?Or, will the light produced by stars gradually fade out as individual stars die, and as new ...

and technological superpower, and it seems to have become a beehive of advances, and a source of dreams for the future.In september 1990, for instance, a group working for the Japanese engineering company, Hitachi, uncovered a new type of superconductive material.Four years ago it was first discovered that certain metallic oxides("ceramics") could be superconductive at unexpectedly high ...