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English scientist studies implications of adding senses to human repertoire

Environment

We’re intimately familiar with the five basic senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. But what if there were a sixth, or seventh? An English scientist is trying to research how technology can give us additional senses.

Author argues U.S. must lead way on bioengineering

Arts, Culture & Media

Technology will enable us to live forever says futurist

Environment

Paying students to drop out of college

Business, Economics and Jobs
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The Posthuman Future

Global Politics
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Greg Stock: Redesigning Humans

Global Politics

Nearly a decade after the human genome was decoded, scientists are only now beginning to understand its implications. One of the leading thinkers in this field is the biotech entrepreneur Gregory Stock.

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The Posthuman Future

Health & Medicine

Everything we’re able to do today to enhance humans – from genetic engineering to artificial limbs – simply improves on the base model we were born with. But for some people, that doesn’t go far enough.

Manipulating the Climate

Geoengineering has gone from a fringe concept to the subject of congressional hearings, but many are still concerned about the unintended consequences of large-scale manipulation of the environment to mitigate climate change.

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