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Field study shows how a GM crop can have diminishing success at fighting off insect pest
The Bronze Age Egtved Girl was not from Denmark
What would it take to limit climate change to 1.5°C by 2100?
Blood to feeling: Scientists turn adult human blood cells into neurons
Hiding your true colors may make you feel morally tainted
Cold weather kills far more people than hot weather
Hycopter stores energy in form of hydrogen, not air
New device may make converting waste heat to electricity industrially competitive
The woman who looked at faces and saw dragons
Arctic find confirms ancient origin of dogs
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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
What's the difference, if it exists, between applied science, engineering, and technology? Can the latter two be said to be subsets of the first?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
The latter two are applications/creation work. They heavily depend upon the first but they aren't really a subset.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
So... What would be an accurate way of describing someone as a incredibly genius Renaissance Man of a scientist, engineer, and technologist in as few words as possible? "His scientific, engineering, and technological genius" is quite a mouthful.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
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Polymath.
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Bacteria cooperate to repair damaged siblings
Sudden onset of ice loss in Antarctica so large it affects Earth's gravity field
Intuitive control of robotic arm using thoughts alone
Fossil of 425-million-year-old parasite with host discovered in England
One-of-a-kind star discovered, nicknamed 'Nasty'
New insights into global ocean microbe-virus interactions, drivers of Earth's ecosystems
Genetic maps help conservation managers maintain healthy bears
WISE spacecraft discovers most luminous galaxy in universe
Modern alchemy: Chemists devise synthesis of valuable exotic compounds
Thunder god vine used in traditional Chinese medicine is a potential obesity treatment
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Savannahs slow climate change, experts say
Partly human yeast show a common ancestor's lasting legacy
Robot masters new skills through trial and error
The Viking's grave and the sunken ship: New photogrammetry method transforms archaeological sites
Go fish! Ancient birds evolved specialist diving adaptations
Lowly 'new girl' chimps form stronger female bonds
Study finds cells that become sperm or eggs in humans are vulnerable during pregnancy
The Large Hadron Collider has just annhilated its own energy record
Gene turns female mosquitoes into males
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From chicken to dinosaur: Scientists experimentally 'reverse evolution' of perching toe
Vaccines developed for H5N1, H7N9 avian influenza strains
Birds 'weigh' peanuts and choose heavier ones
Visualizing how radiation bombardment boosts superconductivity
From reverberating chaos to concert halls, good acoustics is culturally subjective
Scientists have found a way to print incredible properties onto objects
'Prisonized' neighborhoods make ex-cons more likely to return to the slammer
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DNA samples from fungi collections provide key to mushroom 'tree of life'
Can you see what I hear? Blind human echolocators use visual areas of the brain
DNA double helix does double duty in assembling arrays of nanoparticles
Climate engineering may save coral reefs, study shows
Researchers first to create a single-molecule diode
The monopoly of aluminium is broken
Cool alternative to electric kettle avoids excess water
Here's why it'll take us decades to master nuclear fusion
Scientists find way to create supersized fruit
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Very overweight teens may double their risk of bowel cancer in middle age
Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new lease of life
Bus sets speed record, runs on biomethane compressed natural gas
Toward sold-state molecular circuitry: Molecular shuttle within a metal-organic framework
Researchers develop two-legged robot that walks like an animated character
Table-top extreme UV laser system heralds imaging at the nanoscale
Demonstration of room temperature spin transport in germanium
Audi has made a synthetic, high-grade fuel from plant sugars
This portable capsule lets you live off the grid anywhere in the world
This 'Lucky Iron Fish' is halving instances of anaemia in Cambodia
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Clever snail? Animals, like humans, excel at some tasks but not others
Shock Collision Inside Black Hole Jet
Diagnosing cancer with lumninescent bacteria: Engineered probiotics detect tumors in liver
Brain signals contain the code for your next move
Any dose of alcohol combined with cannabis significantly increases levels of THC in blood
Global climate on verge of multi-decadal change
DNA: Expanding code of life with new 'letters'
New human ancestor species from Ethiopia lived alongside Lucy's species
Sex chromosomes—why the Y genes matter
Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness
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Birds, not just mammals, copy yawns
Dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded
Scientists retrieve lost memories using optogenetics
Smart flies can match odd scents to sweet treats based on time of day
Big Bang aftermath: Ancient stars from birth of the universe
Estimating the global burden of cancer in 2013; 14.9 million new cases worldwide
Long life: Balancing protein and carb intake may work as well as calorie restriction
Unexpected brain structures tied to creativity, and to stifling it
Donuts, math, and superdense teleportation of quantum information
Spinning a new version of spider silk
Ethiopian and Egyptian genomes help map early humans' route out of Africa
Extreme global warming of Cretaceous period punctuated with significant global cooling
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Granted eternal life: But condemned to hell on Earth Why the most important thing people uploaded to the internet may need is a suicide switch.
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A patient's budding cortex -- in a dish? Networking neurons thrive in 3-D human 'organoid'
Researchers engineer E. coli to produce new forms of popular antibiotic
Parental smoking puts nearly half a million UK children into poverty
Even when we're resting, our brains are preparing us to be social
Implicit social biases made to drop away during sleep
New 'designer carbon' boosts battery performance
Trees are source for high-capacity, soft batteries
Researchers prove magnetism can control heat, sound
Little-known quake, tsunami hazards lurk offshore of Southern California
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Insect mating behavior has lessons for drones
Sharp-eyed Alma spots a gigantic flare on famous red giant star
Circular orbits of small exoplanets: Which Earth-sized exoplanets are potentially habitable?
Seeing tubular plasma structures in inner layers of magnetosphere surrounding Earth
Changing intelligence test performance
Reading: Brain waves study shows how different teaching methods affect reading development
Quick to laugh or smile? It may be in your genes
Graphene layer could quadruple rate of condensation heat transfer in generating plants
Creationist Makes Significant Fossil Discovery And Won't Accept That It's 60 Million Years Old
Reality doesn’t exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms
Self-healing concrete. Doesn't say anything about cost, but it could very easily keep repair costs down. The article talks about using it in buildings, but I'd start with bridges. Less likely to take out an entire city block if something unexpectedly goes wrong.
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Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur identified from fossil bone that fell from a cliff face
New evidence emerges on the origins of life
Endangered sawfishes having babies, no sex required
New color blindness cause identified: Finding suggests potential therapeutic targets
Study links exposure to common pesticide with ADHD in boys
Crashing comets may explain mysterious lunar swirls
Invasive microbe protects corals from global warming, but at a cost
Ancient algae found deep in tropical glacier
Giant structures called plasmoids could simplify the design of future tokamaks
Novel X-ray lens sharpens view into the nano world
Why humans are the fat primate
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Missing link found between brain, immune system; major disease implications
Infant brains develop years faster than we thought
Kids' altruism linked with better physiological regulation, less family wealth
Physicists make first observation of the pushing pressure of light
Big African Animals Are Pickier Eaters Than We Imagined
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Earth organisms survive under low-pressure Martian conditions
Deepest high-temperature hydrothermal vents discovered in Pacific Ocean
Epicenter of brain's predictive ability pinpointed by scientists
Alice instrument's ultraviolet close-up provides a surprising discovery about comet's atmosphere
Tiny birds ‘cry hawk’ to give offspring chance to escape predators
Researchers use stars to infer mass of Milky Way
Stretchable, biocompatible hydrogels with complex patterning for tissue engineering
Google Teams Up With Levi's To Create Wearable Electronics
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Paleo study shows how elevation may affect evolution
Two chaotically tumbling Pluto moons
Cooking up cognition: Study suggests chimps have cognitive capacity for cooking
World's smallest spirals could guard against identity theft
Sudden draining of glacial lakes explained
'New era' in physics as world's biggest particle smasher cranks up
Proposed synchrotron could store supersonic beams of hydrogen atoms
This new $2.50 device extends disposable battery life by 800%
Prehistoric Bird Sported Feather 'Arrows' at Its Butt
Is my cat bitter, or does he just taste that way?
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Researchers find speedometer in the brain
Brain's reaction to certain words could replace passwords
Catalyst that converts carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide in water
Pregnant pipefish fathers are not super dads
Trouble in the tide pools: Rapid die-off of sea stars and urchins foretells long-term change
Study effort leads to estimates of number of tree species in tropics
'Superspreading event' triggers MERS explosion in South Korea
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Programming DNA to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Study pinpoints what part genes play in the age of first-time moms, family size
New species of horned dinosaur with 'bizarre' features revealed
Your viral infection history in a single drop of blood
World's first digitally-encoded synthetic polymers
Exiled stars explode far from home
Why are 95% of people who live to 110 women? You're as old as your stem cells
Planarian regeneration model discovered by artificial intelligence
Solar cell sets world record with a stabilized efficiency of 13.6%
10,000 years of rabbit bones hint how climate change may hit mammals
Using new data, US finds no pause in global warming
Do cheaters have an evolutionary advantage? Cheating amoebas reveal key to successful societies
Scientists produce the first lab-grown limb
Light-based computers will be even more awesome than we thought
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Archaeologists discover evidence of prehistoric gold trade route
Data scientists find connections between birth month and health
'No-ink’ color printing with nanomaterials
Scientists see ripples of a particle-separating wave in primordial plasma
Not so crowded house? New findings on global species richness
Paleo-engineering: Complexity of triceratops' teeth revealed
Air Force scientists are working on hypersonic air vehicle
Bees are 'sick of humans' but man will feel the sting
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Evolution is unpredictable and irreversible, biologists show
Just add water: Engineers develop computer that operates on water droplets
Crows count on 'number neurons'
Scientists gain first glimpse of new concepts developing in the brain
Researchers isolate smallest unit of sleep to date
Virus evolution and human behavior shape global patterns of flu movement
Dinosaur fossil investigation unlocks possible soft tissue treasure trove
How to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy
Improving energy storage with a cue from nature
Most detailed view ever of star formation in the distant universe
Researchers find strong constraint on delivery of optical signals to computers
Climate change could cause cold-blooded animals' thermal tolerance to shrink
Supernova collides with its companion star
World's oldest stone tools challenge ideas about first toolmakers
Fundamental magnetism discovery: New class of swelling magnets
Severe weather may be linked to Arctic warming
New light on impact of video gaming on the brain
Controlling light: Scientists tune light waves by pairing exotic 2-D materials
Toward 'green' paper-thin, flexible electronics
Astronomy: The dreadful beauty of Medusa
Offshore wind turbine construction could be putting seals' hearing at risk
Physicists find ways to increase antihydrogen production
Nature inspires first artificial molecular pump
This could be the official flag of Earth that we'll plant on Mars
Feature: Cuban science comes in from the cold
The truth about giant tortoises
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