'Artificial life' comes step closer
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Researchers at Rockefeller University make small synthetic vesicles that resemble a crude kind of biological cell.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs and cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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US scientists say they have taken a step towards creating synthetic life in the laboratory.
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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Synthetic biology aims to create new creatures by establishing a standardized set of DNA parts and then installing them like interchangeable electrical components in stripped-down breadboard organisms.
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Craig Venter has built the first man-made genome. Soon those genes may cause a cell to come alive. This tiny organism will be Venter's own  -  and that's just the start
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U.S. physicists have coaxed tiny  artificial atoms into communicating in an advance that may lead  to super-fast quantum computers, the researchers said on  Wednesday.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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Scientists have grown a "brain" in a petri dish that can fly a simulated F-22 fighter airplane. It's all part of a quest to build "living" computers.
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Computer science professor Marvin Minsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for feats that range from inventing the ultrahigh-resolution confocal microscope to helping found the field of artificial intelligence, which aims to create computers that mimic the human mind.
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Metaplace builds a different architecture for virtual worlds.
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Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Ray Kurzweil, an inventor fascinated with the connection between humans and computers, says that emerging trends in biotechnology are opening a realistic path to immortality.
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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New software would make it easier to build computer chips made from carbon nanotubes and assembled by DNA.
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Fans of open-source programming and multiplayer gaming explore ways to bring the concept of the metaverse -- an infinitely expandable virtual world -- closer to fruition. By Daniel Terdiman.
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A close-up view of the human genome reveals its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought.