All Stories by Stephen Ornes
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- Computing
A switch for a living computer
Scientists are finding that computer parts can also be built from DNA.
- Brain
The stuff of dreams
Computer program decodes dreams, finds similar brain activity patterns for objects seen while asleep or awake.
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- Environment
Fungi as carbon keepers
A common type of fungus stores most of a forest floor’s carbon underground.
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- Space
New, older age for the universe
Telescope peers back to see the first light after the Big Bang.
- Planets
Out-of-this-world atmospheres
Light from a distant, giant world offers clues to the gases in its atmosphere.
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- Space
Martian microbes, maybe
Billions of years ago, Mars could have been teeming with very small Martians.
- Health & Medicine
The AIDS virus that vanished
Strong medicine may have rid a newborn of deadly HIV.
