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The Tricorder Will See You Now

If you feel faint on the Starship Enterprise or your head starts spinning around, Bones McCoy would crinkle his brow in concern, take a step back, and scan you with the medical tricorder, a handheld device with a detachable scanner, … Continue reading

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Which One of these Girls is Not Like the Others?

Since we can’t make the day longer, other than by adding leap seconds here and there, cloning ourselves would seem like the next best thing…unless it’s not. Find out about recent advances in human cloning by reading my article on … Continue reading

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Bugging Out

In Guillermo Del Toro’s movie Cronos, an ancient device embodied in a scarab restores youth and vigor to the aged antique dealer who finds it. It also creates a taste for blood; near the end of the movie, the now … Continue reading

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You Think They’ll Have that on the Tour?

I don’t know about you, but even when all hell breaks loose in Jurassic Park and the Velociraptors chase children and overturn cars and the T-Rex shakes the ground and makes Godzilla look like a flea, I’m still thinking, what … Continue reading

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