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I Iz Nite Light

I can has glowing kittehs? Thanks to Korean scientists, two Turkish Angora cats now glow red ( and green ) under ultraviolet light. The miracles of genetic manipulation: South Korean scientists modified skin genes from cells by the mother cat and four fluorescent kittens were born, unfortunately two died during the caesarean section. According to […]

10 (Good) Reasons To Marry A Robot And 10 (Great) Reasons Not To

David Levy made predictions that by 2050 marriages with robots could already be happening. What sounds like science fiction isn’t so far fetched, one just has to take a look at current divorce rates! Ding, you wouldn’t divorce a robot would you? I can very well see human-robot partnerships happening, maybe not as soon as […]

We’re Evolving, Seriously…

Technorati Tags: science , gnome , study , research , evolution , human It looks like humans are evolving at a faster pace than in the distant past. According to a recent study with data from an international genomics project that describes the past 40,000 years as a time of supercharged evolutionary change: “The massive […]

(I-)Mortality And What It Feels Like To Die, In Different Ways

Technorati Tags: death , dying , drowing , science , body , health , mortality , life Do you ever spend any moment worrying about aging and the shortness of life? A week it seems is sometimes over as quickly as it had begun in the first place. Weeks turn into months, years and decades. […]