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With innovative approaches to life-threatening diseases and natural disasters, UC San Diego researchers are making critical ...

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.

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Soon, thanks to the advance of robots, the only reason left to send humans to the moon will be as an ultra-expensive sport, say astronomer royal Martin Rees and astrophysicist Donald Goldsmith ...