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DNA 'perfect for digital storage'

DNA Digital Storage

Scientists have given another eloquent demonstration of how DNA could be used to archive digital data. The UK team encoded a scholarly paper, a photo, Shakespeare's sonnets and a portion of Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech in artificially produced segments of the "life molecule".

 

Arctic to be ice-free in summer in 20 years: scientist

Arctic to be ice-free in summer in 20 years: scientist

Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist said on Thursday.

 

UK to bid for Mars sample centre

Rocks from Mars could be brought to the UK within the next 20 years, if a bid to host a study facility is successful.

 

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